Li Tingliang: raising goats put him on the road to becoming rich

At dawn, the cool morning fog has not dispersed yet. In Fengyi Township, Yibin County, villagers Li Tingliang and his brother are blocking and catching wild goats together. On-site voices and sheep cries form a group of wonderful movements to get rich and get rid of poverty.

A broken leg and a pair of healthy hands.

Li Tingliang, 45, has a Grade 9 disability. In October 2014, when repairing the mixer on the Neikun Railway, he encountered an accident, resulting in fracture of the large and small bones of his left foot and comminuted fracture. From then on, he could no longer walk like an ordinary person, let alone do heavy work. For a time, the whole family was in a desperate situation. Even the eldest son, who was later admitted to a key high school, had to drop out of school to work because of family financial difficulties.

But Li Tingliang did not give up hope. When he was recuperating at home, he thought of the 40 goats left behind after his father died. Why not goat farming? He began to plan his own "sheep raising plan."

Goats released to nature unexpectedly recovered "huge sums"

"I heard that people nowadays like green food and eat game. Why can't they raise wild goats?" Li Tingliang started the idea of thousands of acres of barren slopes around the Guanhe River. These barren slopes could not be cultivated because of their steep slope, but they were rich in fodder, which was a good place to graze sheep. He decided to "release the goat back to nature." Li Tingliang said that he only occasionally put some salt in the sheep's habitat, give them appetite, the rest of the time are far away guard. Sheep never go home, at dawn they flock to the mountains to find food, and at dark they return to sleep in caves by the river, becoming real "wild goats".

"This way of raising sheep itself is a major feature of goat breeding. The meat of the sheep raised is tender and tight, and the taste is delicious. Any happy event in the village will be bought from him." Speaking of Li Tingliang, Li Xiaobo, director of the general election village, kept giving a thumbs up.

According to Li Tingliang, he can sell more than 10 sheep every year, a catty of sheep can sell 18 yuan, a year can earn nearly 20,000 yuan, this is undoubtedly a "huge sum" for this originally difficult family. This also confirmed Li Tingliang's idea of getting rid of poverty by breeding wild goats.

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Li Tingliang's story of self-reliance by raising sheep was spread locally, but he did not forget the people in the village, but actively contacted some disabled people around to breed, sold his sheep at low prices or even gave them free of charge, encouraged them to live optimistically, get out of trouble and embark on the road of becoming rich.