Young man gives up city life to return home and start a farming business, becoming a leader in getting rich

Today, when many young entrepreneurs are scrambling to squeeze into the cities, Chu Weixiang of Chutang Village, Huabao, Ningling, has kept his eyes fixed on the countryside. In 2010, having already settled down in Shangqiu, he resolved to return to the village and took up crop farming and livestock breeding. He did not forget his fellow villagers on the road to prosperity, and over the past few years he has led villagers in farming and breeding, which has become a much-told story locally.

Chu Weixiang is 30 years old this year. Yesterday, the reporter hurried to Chutang Village to interview Chu Weixiang at the Tianming Pigeon Breeding Cooperative. He studied computing at a secondary vocational school, and after graduation sold computers, ran a typing shop and set up a school. During the school-running period, he used the money from his own entrepreneurship to buy an apartment in the urban area of Shangqiu, where the family of three settled down, with no worries about food or clothing. But he was not content with the status quo. In 2010, he began raising pigeons and at the same time started growing honeysuckle. Chu Weixiang said that at the beginning of his career change, he suffered a lot. His crop farming and livestock breeding were strongly opposed by his parents, who thought that since their son had settled down in the city and life had become comfortable, there was no need to go back to the countryside to endure hardship.

Early the following year, through land transfer, Chu Weixiang contracted 100 mu of land in the village, and rehired villagers to work growing honeysuckle, and also planted garlic, green vegetables and other cash crops in the honeysuckle fields. At present, the more than 2,000 pairs of breeding pigeons he raises produce over 10,000 squabs a month, and this item alone brings in more than 200,000 yuan a year. At the same time, he invested 2 million yuan to register the Ningling County Tianming Breeding Cooperative, and more than 400 households from surrounding townships have now joined the cooperative.

Lu Na of Menglukou Village, Huabao Town, used to farm at home. Last spring she joined the cooperative to raise pigeons, and in her words it is "better than going out to work."