Xie Ziyong in Guanghan, Sichuan leads the villagers to increase their income and become rich by raising baby fish.

Baby fish scientific name giant salamander, is a national second-class protection of amphibious wild animals, perennial life in the wild mountain streams, few people have seen its "real body". However, Xie Ziyong of Gaoping Town, Guanghan City, Sichuan Province, found a business opportunity in the baby fish. After obtaining the breeding license, he began to raise the baby fish and brought the baby fish to the table, which became a delicacy in the mouth of the citizens. At the same time, he also set up a cooperative, which attracted hundreds of members to join, allowing more villagers to start raising baby fish, which has become another "magic weapon" to increase income and become rich.

The "skill" of raising baby fish is particularly important.

"at present, what is officially sold in the market are artificially bred 'second-generation' baby fish-- to put it colloquially, they are hybrid grandchildren with wild baby fish as their parents," Xie told the Southwest Business Daily. Wild baby fish and their offspring are protected by the state and are not allowed to be slaughtered and eaten.

Recently, the reporter came to Xie Ciyong's baby fish breeding base, walked into a dark room, only heard the sound of dripping water, but also felt waves of cool. With the light of the flashlight, it turned out that the room was full of small pools made of bricks, and the pools were full of baby fish.

"now there are more than 10,000 baby fish, the heaviest of which is more than 10 jin." Under the introduction of Xie Ciyong, the reporter noticed that some of the baby fish in the pool are nearly one meter long, while others are very small. When the baby fish felt the light, they began to fall back.

"We must be careful and observe carefully when raising baby fish. We keep them in different pools according to the size of the baby fish." Xie Ciyong said that baby fish like low temperature, dark, and humid environment, the most important thing is that baby fish cannot live in stagnant water, and tap water contains substances such as chlorine, which is not suitable for baby fish to grow, so he specially dug deeper wells to raise baby fish.

Obsessed with aquaculture, focusing on new business opportunities

When it comes to the technology of raising "baby fish", Xie Ciyong always talks endlessly. Xie Ciyong said that he is a man who is obsessed with farming. "when I see what other people raise, I want to try it myself."

At the end of 2008, he came to Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, and this time let him know that raising baby fish turned out to be a promising project. "in the past, baby fish was also a strange species to me." Xie Ciyong said, but when he learned about the dollfish from his friends in Shaanxi, he tried to raise dollfish in cooperation with his friends.

"over there, I also learned a lot about the breeding skills of baby fish," Xie Ciyong told the Southwest Business Daily. Once the technology was mastered, he gradually began to expand the scale of breeding, and then cooperated with others to raise thousands of baby fish in Shuangliu.

"I am from Guanghan, so it would be nice if I could go back to my hometown to start a business and start farming in my hometown!" With the desire to return to his hometown to start a business, in 2014, Xie Ziyong invested more than 6 million yuan to build a wild baby fish domestication and breeding base in Gaoping Town, Guanghan City, after testing the water quality and climate standards in his hometown. At the same time, he also set up a farm music, combining breeding with catering, and pushing the baby fish to the dining table. Now, on weekends and holidays, there is an endless stream of people coming to Xie Ciyong's farm family to enjoy the baby fish, and everyone is very curious about the taste of the farmed baby fish.

Today, Xie Ciyong's baby fish are sold not only in his own farm and base, but also in Chengdu. "Last year, tens of thousands of pieces were successfully sold." Xie Ciyong said that a baby fish weighs about six or seven jin, and it can sell for 120 to 150 yuan per jin. "the culture period of baby fish is three years, and it is cultured routinely. After three years, each baby fish weighs about 2-3 kilograms. The economic benefit is very considerable."

Set up cooperatives to drive villagers to get rich together

Never forget the folks when you get rich. In order to help local villagers increase their income, Xie Ziyong set up a doll fish farming cooperative. Cooperatives take the form of funds or shares in land, which has grown from a few people at first to hundreds of people now. The base adopts the form of wholly-owned substitute cultivation or imparting technology self-cultivation to drive the people around Deyang to participate in wild baby fish culture.

"I adopted 2000 baby fish at the base." Zhang Yingsong, a villager of Shuimozi Village, Gaoping Town, usually works as an administrator in the breeding base and is responsible for "taking care of" baby fish. When he saw that the baby fish farming project had considerable benefits and good prospects, he immediately decided to join the cooperative and invest in the adoption of baby fish. "watching the baby fish grow up every day is really good, and now I have invested 80,000 yuan." Zhang Yingsong said that now his greatest wish is to see the baby fish grow up day by day, the cooperative benefits are better, and will be able to receive higher dividends in the future.

At present, led by Xie Ciyong, more than 100 members have raised baby fish. When talking about the prospects for future development, Xie Ciyong said confidently: "now all the baby fish (fry) I raise are ordered from friends. In the future, I also want to cultivate a kind of fish for hatching. In short, I hope to drive more farmers to raise baby fish and get rich together. "