Hare farming leads Wanggang Township, Pingqiao District, Henan onto the road to prosperity
"The male hare's feet go hop and skip, the female hare's eyes are muddled and dim; two hares running side by side, how can I tell if I'm male or female?" In "Ballad of Mulan", the hare is cleverly used as a metaphor for how hard it is for people to tell that Mulan is a woman, which shows that hares really are hard to tell apart by sex. But for He Donghui, a hare-farming expert in Shantou Village, Wanggang Township, Pingqiao District, this should be an easy thing to do.
It is deep winter again. On an unnamed small hill in Shantou Village, Wanggang Township, lively hares are enjoying their own time. Some paw at green vegetables, look up at visitors, then go on chewing slowly; some nibble fallen leaves that are still greenish, their little eyes darting about; others play in groups in the cold wind. Watching this scene, their owner He Donghui cannot help but smile.
He Donghui, who has just passed the age of 30, dropped out of junior high school to work in Guangdong. Through his struggles he came to realize the importance of education. Later, he taught himself drawing, forklift operation, driving, Cambridge Business English, and computer and office equipment hardware repair, and once opened a small shop in Guangzhou specializing in computer repair. But the persistent desire to start his own business kept pushing him to keep looking for opportunities, until by chance he saw hare farming online and made up his mind to return home and start a business.
He Donghui kept observing hares and accumulating experience. Through constant effort, he succeeded: by crossbreeding hares he caught himself with purchased breeding hares to improve the quality of his own stock, he developed a method of hare farming that was all his own. He Donghui used online platforms to sell the hares he raised to hotels, agritainment businesses and hare farmers across the country, and also opened a technical consulting platform for hare farming.
He Donghui gave his hare farming base a resounding name - Central Plains Hilly Hare Ecological Farming. Now his business is on track. He receives 3 to 5 phone bookings every day, answers various technical farming problems at irregular times, and his annual income has reached 150,000 yuan.