Huang Zhirong: working in his second hometown

Recently, amid a burst of festive drum music, Huang Zhirong, a 41-year-old Yibin native of Sichuan Province, and his partner hung a sign reading Cangnan County Ounan Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative high on the wall, realizing their first entrepreneurial dream on foreign land.

In the fields of his second hometown, Huang Zhirong realized his dream of starting a business.

Under the guidance of Huang Zhirong, Wan Dacheng, a Sichuan boy, went into the field and found a job suitable for himself.

Huang Zhigui (first from right), a fellow Sichuan villager, tasted the joy of harvest with the help of Huang Zhirong.

In 1994, Huang Zhirong came to Cangnan County with simple luggage to find a way to become rich, spending every day in sweat and hard work. In the summer of 2001, when he came home from work, he suddenly found a large field full of weeds by the roadside. He knew that it had become like this because there was no farming. It's a pity that such a good piece of land is wasted. If it's mine, I must turn it into a cornucopia. Thinking of doing it, Huang Zhirong began to ask people everywhere to find land, and finally contracted 5 mu of farmland to grow vegetables with 700 yuan he usually saved.

In the first three years, Huang Zhirong did not manage smoothly, did not make money but lost money, but he was not discouraged, expanded the contracted land area to more than 70 mu, and learned from teachers everywhere. From the fourth year, Huang Zhirong made money, and earned a lot. Then he expanded the planting area to more than 130 mu through contracting, subcontracting and other forms of land circulation, and hired more than 10 helpers.

Huang Zhirong's success attracted the attention of fellow villagers in Sichuan Province. Some people began to come to ask for advice. He often put down his work enthusiastically, helped his fellow villagers contact land contracting and taught vegetable planting techniques. Huang Zhigui was one of the first Sichuan villagers to learn to grow vegetables with Huang Zhirong. Now he has 30 mu of farmland. When the reporter asked him how much income a year, he smiled and said: "It's OK, much better than working for others." Huang Zhirong said quietly on the side: "Although they work hard for a year, their income is not less than 100,000 yuan."

As more and more people came to look for him, Huang Zhirong became busier and busier. He traveled all day in Yishan, Qianku, Haicheng and other towns. "Why don't we set up a vegetable cooperative?" At the initiative of a friend. Huang Zhirong, together with Taishun immigrant Zhang Qingsong and several local villagers, established Ounan Vegetable Planting Professional Cooperative in Cangnan County, which specially provides fertilizer, seeds, production technology and vegetable purchase services for those who contract farmland to grow vegetables. "I'm going to set up a planting demonstration base and a vegetable processing factory." Huang Zhirong began to busy himself with his new life dream.