The mystery of wealth in the giant towel gourd

Highlights: in 2005, as soon as he took over his father's processing plant, he encountered a disaster. The factory was gone and he owed millions of foreign debts. Penniless and start a business again, he rebuilt the factory in half a year, and his sales increased fivefold. He works on towel gourd. The bigger the towel gourd is, the more profitable it is. A towel gourd can be more than 1 meter long. Relying on the giant towel gourd, with sales exceeding 50 million yuan in 2014, how can Huang Wenjiang reverse his fortune and achieve wealth with the big towel gourd?

When the reporter went to interview Huang Wenjiang, he and the local farmers were busy preparing an important thing.

Huang Wenjiang: please come out for a moment.

Interviewer: Hello.

Villager: Hello.

Huang Wenjiang: this is our reporter Zhang from CCTV.

Villager: Hello.

Interviewer: Hello. What are you doing?

Villager: I'm looking for the biggest towel gourd.

Reporter: want to choose the biggest towel gourd?

Villager: yes, I'm going to compete tomorrow.

Interviewer: come on, let's choose it for you. Towel gourd is so big.

Villager: that's not big.

Interviewer: it's not big?

Villager: this is not big.

Interviewer: there's something bigger, right?

Villager: yes.

Towel gourd is common, but this is the first time a reporter has seen a giant towel gourd that is more than 1 meter long and very thick. Farmers are busy finding the largest towel gourd in their families and participating in the loofah king competition in Dongxiang County. If they win the championship, they will not only get the title of "king of gourd", but also get a bonus of 3000 yuan for a towel gourd. Wu Meigu was the melon king last year, and this year he tried hard to win the championship, picking out the largest towel gourd to participate in the competition.

Wu Meigu: it's exactly 98 centimeters.

Reporter: this is 98 centimeters. I look very long. Do you think you are satisfied? Take this to compete?

Wu Meigu: this won't work.

Interviewer: no?

Wu Meigu: it's a little short.

Farmers care about how big the towel gourd is, and Huang Wen-Chiang also pays special attention to it. The loofah king competition is held by his company, and this year is already the second year. The aim is to encourage farmers to grow bigger towel gourd, because it is closely related to his wealth.

Huang Wenjiang: when it gets bigger, it becomes money. I dream of making it bigger and longer. Its growth and growth will be directly related to my wealth, so I especially hope that it can become bigger and longer.

The bigger the towel gourd is, the happier Huang Wenjiang is. What is the secret of wealth in this loofah?

In fact, these big towel gourds cannot be eaten. In the past, the local people used towel gourd flesh to brush the pot, which was of no value at all. But in the hands of Huang Wen-Chiang, the value of the big towel gourd has doubled. Now he has bought more than 10,000 mu of towel gourd in Dongxiang County. His company's annual sales exceeded 50 million yuan, which made the local people admire him very much.

Villager: this one is long.

Huang Wenjiang: be careful.

Interviewer: so heavy.

Huang Wenjiang: take it out for comparison.

Interviewer: good. The scaffolding is so low that it is not easy.

Villager: yes. Let me measure it.

Wu Meigu won the championship last year towel gourd 1.2 meters long, this towel gourd length is longer than last year, which makes him a bit more confident.

Interviewer: what do you think is the possibility of winning the prize tomorrow?

Villager: sixty or seventy percent.

Reporter: 60% to 70%?

Villager: yes.

Interviewer: it's really long. You see, I'm 1.68 meters tall. You see, this is almost to my shoulder. It's really very long. All right, let's go.

Villager: OK, let's go. I'll take it.

Interviewer: lift it up. It's all right. I'll help you lift it.

Villager: OK, come on.

Although he is very satisfied with the loofah selected, Wu Meigu is not entirely sure, because there are more than 5000 farmers growing towel gourd in Dongxiang County, and many people want to compete with him for the championship.

The villager, Huang Guoxing, has planted 8 mu of towel gourd. In order to select the most competitive products, he has been back and forth in the fields for 2 days.

Reporter: what were your achievements last year?

Huang Guoxing: last year was the third prize. I didn't accept it.

Interviewer: what do you want to achieve this year?

Huang Guoxing: let's have a big prize, number one.

Interviewer: heading for the championship, right?

Huang Guoxing: yes.

Everyone wants to be a champion, who will be the towel gourd king this year?

On August 30, 2015, the towel gourd king competition in Dongxiang County will be held in Cimei Village. Early in the morning, many Dongxiang people come here to watch the hustle and bustle, and even some tourists come specially from other places. Dongxiang County townships, selected 20 towel gourd experts to participate in the competition, the contestants are very confident, no one is convinced.

Interviewer: this master has a big one, too. Let me have a look. The 4th, right?

Villager: yes.

Interviewer: how do you feel? are you confident?

Villager: yes.

Reporter: do you feel confident today to win the longest (towel gourd) champion?

Villager: yes.

Interviewer: confident?

Villager: I just have confidence.

Host: welcome to the applause.

At 10:00 in the morning, the competition began, and as soon as the contestants came out carrying the big towel gourd, they attracted cheers from the audience.

The competition is divided into two awards, the longest towel gourd and the largest towel gourd, the longest towel gourd ratio is the length. The maximum towel gourd ratio is thickness, and the perimeter should be measured like this. Towel gourd is growing very well this year, with its length and thickness exceeding that of previous years. As soon as Wu Meigu's towel gourd was unveiled, it became the focus of the audience. After measurement, the length reached 1.32 meters.

After more than an hour of competition, the result of the competition was finally announced. Wu Meigu, the king of melon last year, won the championship again, winning the longest towel gourd, and another farmer won the largest towel gourd championship. Some of the contestants who came for the championship but did not win the prize were very greedy.

Villager: with a little regret.

Reporter: with a little regret, you didn't win the prize?