How a female top achiever on the road to wealth was made
When people mention Li Chunyan, the villagers of Xinfa Bao Village, Quanyanling Township, Lishu County, Jilin Province, vividly call her a busy "spring swallow." In 1993, Li Chunyan began small-scale courtyard breeding. At that time she raised only one black sow, and today it has grown into a large-scale farm with more than 800 fattening pigs and more than 170 breeding sows on hand, and she registered and established "Xinfa Bao Mutai Pig Farm, Quanyanling Township, Lishu County." She is a well-known pig-raising expert in the area. Driven by her, starting in 1994, more than 100 households in the village gradually took the road to prosperity by raising pigs at home. Villager Lu Juan, who works away from home, said: "If Sister Chunyan had not warmly helped us at that time, my family would not have become well-off, and I would not have the courage today to go out and venture into the world."
In 1991, when 24-year-old Li Chunyan married into her husband's family, the home had not a single decent piece of furniture or appliance, and instead was saddled with debt because of her father-in-law's illness. Clever and capable Li Chunyan tried working the land with her family, but what pained her was that the grain harvested after a year of hard work could only bring back a meager income, and the whole family lived very frugally. Li Chunyan thought: living like this would not do; only by thinking of things and doing things would life have joy and would a person live fully. She had to rely on the advantages she had, find ways and seek a way out to become rich. After investigation and demonstration, she decided to develop the breeding industry, borrowed a little money here and there, and began raising pigs.
Li Chunyan said: "When I started preparing to build the pig farm in 1992, I stayed with the pigs in the pigpen almost every day, and I also had to study pig-raising techniques earnestly, consult materials, and master all kinds of knowledge about pig epidemic prevention, which also increased my confidence in pig farming. Now I can be said to be both boss and technician. Not to mention when my own pigs get sick, even when pigs at other nearby pig farms get sick, I can go and help treat them."
Li Chunyan told the reporter: "In 2010 my family built a new pig housing facility, and on the fifth day of the first lunar month we began bringing in piglets, about 200 of them. In less than half a month the piglets all died, and at that time we lost so much that I even felt like dying. After calming down and looking for the cause, I felt that raising pigs required self-breeding and self-raising to ensure the safety of pig epidemic prevention. So I began raising 17 breeding sows, and also raised stud boars, and I also learned artificial insemination of breeding sows, delivering piglets, and epidemic prevention. At most, one of my breeding sows could produce 21 piglets. Now we are on the path of large-scale breeding. This year the pig market is very good, and it is expected to earn more than 1 million yuan in profit. I am full of confidence in pig farming."
After 23 years of effort, Li Chunyan built a modern, large-scale pig breeding base. There are now five standardized pig houses, with a building area of 10,000 sq m, an annual output of 4,000 pigs, and an annual output value of 6 million yuan. She has successively obtained the National Female Broker Professional Qualification Certificate and has won titles including female expert in the "Double Learning, Double Comparing" program for rural women in Siping City and female top achiever in becoming rich through the "Double Learning, Double Comparing" program in Lishu County.