The Story of Two Post-80s College Students Raising Cold Water Fish in Lushan County, Sichuan Province

After 7 years of hard work, he was promoted from a salesman to the company's area manager with an annual income of more than 150000 yuan. Unwilling to live a step-by-step life, he, together with colleagues with the same dream of starting their own business, gave up a high salary and co-contributed 3 million yuan to start a cold-water fish culture in deep ravines. He is Ma Jun.

Ma Jun is a member of Zhaojiaba Group, Jinhua Community, Luyang Town, Lushan County. Before 2013, he was the district manager of the sales department of Maoming City, Guangdong Province, Tongwei Group Co., Ltd.; after 2013, he resigned and returned to his hometown to live a fish farming life as both a boss and a worker.

Work hard for many years and make small achievements in your career.

The live water fish farm of Ma Jun and his companion Zhao Xin was built in a deep mountain and gully more than 600 meters above sea level. Qi Xuejun, secretary of the party branch of Liming Village, Luyang Town, Lushan County, said that Ma Jun and Zhao Xin are post-80s boys. They have skills, can endure hardships, are aggressive, have a unique vision in choosing venues, and breed fish of good quality. Although the price is on the high side, they buy a lot of people. Qi Xuejun hopes to use fish farms as a platform to promote the development of local villagers.

"I have been engaged in the sale of fish feed for many years and have an inextricable bond with fish!" In an interview on October 31, Ma Jun was full of confidence in his choice of giving up a high salary to engage in breeding. He said that as long as the villagers want to develop, they will provide technical services free of charge.

After graduating in 2005, Ma Jun became an employee of Tongwei Group in Maoming District, Guangdong Province. He was active, hardworking and diligent, and his performance rose step by step, and then he was promoted to be the manager of Maoming District, with an annual income of more than 150000 yuan.

After marriage, Ma Jun, who rarely returns to his hometown, has a stronger and stronger homesickness complex, and the mood of returning to his hometown for development is becoming more and more urgent.

In early 2013, after Ma Jun told his colleague Zhao Xin, the two hit it off and decided to go it alone.

After market investigation and demonstration, coupled with their own mastery and accumulated professional knowledge, they decided to raise cold-water fish.

Give up a high salary and go back to your hometown to raise live water fish

In August 2013, Ma Jun and Zhao Xin resigned and returned to Lushan.

The two men first looked for water. They both know that only high-quality water can produce higher-quality fish. After two months of investigation and investigation, Ma Jun and Zhao Xin finally built the fish farm in a mountain gully of Wangjiawo formation in Liming Village, Luyang Town, Lushan County. The mountain spring water in this gully comes from the depths of the mountains. It is clean and clear, and it flows continuously all the year round. The annual average water temperature is about 20 ℃. It is the best natural cold water fish culture site.

"the local villagers are very supportive and have provided us with a lot of help!" Ma Jun said that when he resigned and went back to his hometown to raise fish, his parents were strongly opposed at first, but luckily he got his wife's support and took out all his savings for many years. Later, when his parents saw that they were determined not to change, they also changed their minds and took out their family savings to support him.

In order to ensure the success of one-off construction, Ma Jun and Zhao Xin have been living in tents on the mountain, from expropriation of land to the construction of fish ponds. They jointly design, direct and do it themselves. Through efforts, a fish farm covering an area of 6 mu and 26 live-water fish ponds was built in May last year. In June of the same year, 300000 elegant fish, grass carp and carp fry were released. As ecological food is understood and accepted by more and more citizens, they choose to raise fish in live water. Although the cycle is 6 to 10 months longer and the cost is 30% to 40% higher than that of fish farming in ponds, the fish raised in live water are of high quality and sell well.

According to their respective specialties, Ma Jun is responsible for the management of fish farms and the sale of finished fish, while Zhao Xin is responsible for breeding technology. In their words, since it is a joint venture, it is necessary to agree with each other.

At present, grass carp and carp in fish farms have entered the sales period one after another. The price of their cold-water fish reaches 40 yuan per kilogram, which is mainly sold to Chongqing and Chengdu.

"I'm going to develop farm music in the future!" The five-year plan formulated by Ma Jun and Zhao Xin is to build a standardized fish farm to drive more local farmers to raise fish, and to build a special farm as a platform to change the local situation that has always depended on farming for a living. take advantage of unique mountain scenery and good vegetation to develop the tertiary industry.