Zhang Qunying: "Flower Girl" becomes "Gourd King" again

"Oh! This kind of handicraft gourd is really beautiful, and the pyrography on the gourd is really lifelike! Boss, 10 yuan each, I'll take it all. "

"Sorry, the goods have already been ordered. They have ordered 500 pieces at the price of 20 yuan each. I haven't finished processing them yet. If you really want it, we'll talk about it when my work is done. " On May 20, the author went to the home of Zhang Qunying, a flower grower in the 13th regiment of the first Agricultural Division, for an interview, just in time for Zhang Qunying to talk business with a businessman from other places.

A few years ago, after Zhang Qunying was laid off from the 13th regiment processing plant, she did not complain, but took the initiative to find her own way out. Through market research, she set her sights on the flower-growing industry and started to make a living. With the help of relatives and friends, Zhang Qunying took steps one step at a time, growing her flower bed from small to big, and gradually formed an industrial chain integrating flower breeding, cultivation, sales and service. Today, the nearly 100 kinds of flowers cultivated by Zhang Qunying not only meet the needs of the staff and workers of the regiment, but also sell to eight counties and cities around Aksu, with an annual income of more than 100000 yuan.

"making handicrafts with gourds is the inspiration I got after watching the CCTV news broadcast during the Spring Festival this year." Zhang Qunying told me, "now that the flower market is gradually saturated, business is not easy to do. Only by coming up with novel ideas and people without me can there be a way out." That day, when I turned on the TV and just tuned the channel to the news broadcast, I saw the announcer introducing farmers in Liaocheng Liangshui Town, Shandong Province, who planted "Baohulu" to get rich, and distributed several photos, which immediately attracted me. "

Zhang Qunying said that after the Spring Festival, she and her husband successively visited Hotan, Awati, and other places where the gourd had been planted, went online many times to learn about the market situation of gourd handicrafts, and bought a number of gourds as quickly as possible.

It is understood that in order to develop the gourd handicraft project, Zhang Qunying chose to plant 5 mu of gourd herself this year. Introduced by a friend, she also got in touch with the teacher of the painting Academy to provide him with gourd painting samples.