Koi fish are hailed as the king of ornamental fish, and ecological breeding has paved a road to prosperity

Koi has long enjoyed the reputation of being the "king of ornamental fish." By a chance opportunity, he attended a koi competition in Shanghai, and from then on his life began a new trajectory. "Through that opportunity, I got to know Su E, who was the first person to introduce koi into China for breeding. Through him taking me to Guangzhou and to various places to look around, I fell more and more in love with koi, and I felt that the koi breeding industry could be treated as a career."

In 2010, Huang Jinkui returned after completing his studies, full of confidence, and officially began his business venture. The excitement of starting a business kept him buried in the breeding shed all day, carefully raising his treasures. But despite all his care, one extremely precious brood fish suddenly died, which pained Huang Jinkui deeply, because a single brood fish was worth more than 100,000 yuan. At the initial stage of starting a business, funds were already tight, and this made things even worse.

Due to limited funds and insufficient experience, Huang Jinkui did not rashly engage in large-scale breeding. Instead, he contracted a plot of half a mu, strictly followed scientific methods, built a breeding greenhouse, set up a water circulation system, and then, buying some and borrowing some, scraped together more than a dozen brood fish and put them into the pond.

That feeling in his heart was hard to describe. It was just parasites on the gills; actually, using a bit of insecticide would have been a very simple problem, but at the time he truly did not understand, and it hurt. Faced with this situation, although he was in great pain, Huang Jinkui did not panic. He promptly removed the dead fish and carefully checked the condition of the other brood fish. Huang Jinkui even specially took the dead fish to the laboratory for a cause-of-death analysis, and ultimately found the cause of the brood fish's illness. Fortunately, Huang Jinkui's breeding shed used a water circulation system, which prevented cross-infection of fish diseases, and the other brood fish were safe and sound, which also made Huang Jinkui breathe a sigh of relief.

Huang Jinkui did not just bury himself in his own small world of breeding. He also took the koi he had carefully raised to participate in quite a few competitions, and had once taken first place in these competitions. He said that winning awards in competitions was only one aspect; more importantly, in such high-level competitions, he could exchange experience with many koi experts, and also broaden his horizons and open up his thinking. Huang Jinkui continuously learned lessons, accumulated experience, and gradually improved his breeding level. In just a few short years, his breeding base grew from half a mu to several dozen mu.

Huang Jinkui also actively expanded sales channels, not only establishing his own physical store, but also selling online. Now his base has formed an integrated production, supply, and sales chain, with fixed customers reaching several dozen households. Raising koi is hard work, but I feel that in the breeding process there is pain along with happiness.