Entrepreneurial Warrior-- qu Jiyong, the leader of baby fish farming

Matatun Village, Guiding County, Guizhou Province is a mountain village in Qiannan Prefecture. In this small mountain village where the pace of life seems to be extremely slow, due to baby fish farming, the production and management of the villagers rise and fall with the changes of the market.

At the turning point of each rise and fall, there is the same "leader", who is qu Jiyong, the "post-80s" entrepreneur. At 1.60 meters tall, wearing a pair of glasses and behind his skinny figure, he made amazing choices on his way to start a business. it is the affirmation and praise given by the society: "Top local talents in Guizhou Province in 2009-2010", "leaders of the 185 Project in Qiannan Prefecture in 2010" and "excellent scientific and educational talents in Qiannan Prefecture in 2013".

The more frustrated, the more brave and successful to embark on the road of baby fish breeding.

In 2002, after graduating from Yongzhou Vocational and Technical College in Hunan, qu Jiyong wanted to start a business. My father died early and his family was poor. He borrowed 30,000 yuan from relatives and opened up 50 mu of wasteland on the mountain in front of his home. He successively planted bamboo shoot, flowers, figs, and raised bamboo rats and pheasants without success. In 2005, he ended his seventh business with a debt of 50,000 yuan, which became a negative example for villagers to oppose their children's entrepreneurship.

Failure did not knock out qu Jiyong. In 2005, after the Guizhou Provincial people's and Social Affairs Department launched the "one village and one college student plan", he immediately applied for the rural economic management major of Guizhou Radio and Television University to build a knowledge reserve for starting a business again, and then he went to work in Shenzhen. In 2007, qu Jiyong, who had been searching, heard that someone in his hometown raised baby fish and immediately rushed back to Matatun Village.

Guiding County is a famous hometown of baby fish in the country. At that time, the price of adult baby fish soared to 1800 yuan per catty, and the price of a fry about 10 centimeters long reached 900 yuan. The price of fish fry is so high, what if it can't be raised? What should I do if I can't sell after I've been raised? Faced with a lot of uncertainty, qu Jiyong was determined to give it a try. He borrowed more than 40,000 yuan, bought more than 40 fish fry, raised baby fish, and then expanded the scale of breeding. Finally, qu Jiyong ushered in the first success on the road of entrepreneurship and reaped the first bucket of gold.

In 2009, qu Jiyong passed the examination and became the assistant director of Mattatun Village. He decided to breed baby fish fry and change the market situation in which the price of fish fry is too high, so that more villagers can afford to raise baby fish.

Few people mastered the breeding technology of imitating ecological baby fish, and qu Jiyong went to Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province to learn the art. What if no one passes the skills? Qu Jiyong established a baby fish breeding QQ group, which gathered baby fish farmers from all over the country. Although people do not want to teach technology, but communicate together every day, inadvertently always talk about little by little. With patience, carefulness and reading books, qu Jiyong finally mastered the breeding technology of baby fish.

After learning the technology and putting it into practice, we can't overcome the hurdles of capital and risk. The implementation of imitating ecological breeding of baby fish, only the construction site needs hundreds of thousands of yuan.

One day in the second half of 2009, qu Jiyong sent his old mother to visit his relatives early in the morning. It turned out that qu Jiyong was going to mortgage his house and tea garden for 150000 yuan. On that day, the local rural credit cooperatives would come to examine his loan qualification. In this way, under great pressure, he sold 40 baby fish, and he finally collected 300000 yuan and built a 1.5-mu doll fish imitation ecological breeding base in 2010.

After paying a high price to buy 20 fish with an average weight of 6 jin, qu Jiyong stayed at the breeding base day and night. During the critical period of reproduction, he got up every hour or two at night to check on the baby fish. In order to better observe the baby fish hidden in the water hole, he bought an underwater camera.

In October 2011, the breeding fish finally produced more than 500 eggs, of which more than 100 hatched into doll fry.

By 2012, qu Jiyong's breeding base will be able to breed more than 2300 baby fish fry a year. He sold all of them to local farmers at a price of 200 yuan each, and set up cooperatives to drive more than 300 farmers to raise baby fish. He became the leader of getting rich in the eyes of the villagers.

Extended industrial chain doll fish noodles sell well in the market

The market is rapidly changing.

In 2012, the price of baby fish dropped continuously, from more than 1800 yuan to more than 500,300,200 yuan.

According to statistics, as of the second quarter of 2013, the number of commercial baby fish in Cunchi in Qiannan Prefecture reached more than 122000. Among them, the number of commercial baby fish in Cunchi in Guiding County reached 94000, ranking first in the state. At this time, qu Jiyong was at a loss. Where should the road ahead go?

An accidental opportunity, let him see hope. One day after the Spring Festival in 2013, lover Xu Shiqin bought a bag of purple potato noodles for his young son. Qu Jiyong saw that purple potatoes can be made into noodles, why can't baby fish be made into noodles? In this way, we can make effective use of the local baby fish culture resources and extend the industrial chain. After market research, he decided to process baby fish children's noodles.

Since May 2013, qu Jiyong began to experiment during the gap between raising baby fish. In nearly a year, he consumed more than 3000 jin of flour and more than 300 jin of doll fish, and finally developed noodles with suitable proportions, non-fragile and resistant to cooking. Soon, he invested more than 400,000 yuan to build a production line with an annual output of 1 million jin of baby fish and children's noodles, longevity noodles, and nutritious noodles, registered the trademark "Qianmeng", and could consume about 100000 jin of baby fish every year.

Today, qu Jiyong's "Qian Meng" doll fish noodles have entered Guizhou, Shaanxi, Shanghai and other markets, and won the "Golden Diamond Award" in China's catering industry.

"my dream is to make the baby fish industry bigger and stronger. As long as you have a dream, you must act, otherwise it will always be a dream. " Qu Jiyong said.