Zhang Baowu of Chengbei Village, Heilongjiang, knows the book of pig farming by heart

    "When meat prices rise, pig farmers beam with joy; when meat prices fall, farmers wear gloomy faces." This is a true portrayal of the live pig market in recent years. Many pig farmers struggle because they cannot accurately grasp the pulse of the market and have not read and studied the book of pig farming deeply enough, and in the end they admit defeat. As long as people eat pork, there is a market. In fact, what pig farmers lack is persistence, and what they lack is dedication to study. Zhang Baowu of Chengbei Village started with breeding methods and breeds, scientifically proportioned the feed, and seized the market through scale and quality. 
　　 
Returning to Chengbei Village to interview Zhang Baowu again after several years, what I did not expect was this: even when the market was sluggish, he had 200 breeding sows in stock.
　　 
The media has reported on Zhang Baowu many times, which also inspired his confidence and entrepreneurship, and his scale grew larger and larger. After being tempered many times, he became a widely known "Pig Farming King." 
　　 
Indeed, most people think pig farming is just feeding the pigs every day, but when feeding pigs, not only is attention paid to the feed formula, there is also special attention paid to the degree of feeding. It is not about stuffing the pigs full every time; attention must also be paid to health care. 
　　 
Today, his live pig farming has developed from just a few fattening pigs several years ago to today's pig farm. The pig breeds have also increased from the local native breed at the beginning to several breeds now, including "Landrace." Approaching the pigsty, the huge breeding sows astonished me. 
　　 
In recent years, Zhang Baowu's live pig farming has brought him very high income. He has continuously introduced fine breeds and combined traditional and modern farming techniques, developing to today's scale and efficiency of nearly a thousand head marketed per year, and the quality of the breeding sows is getting better and better. 
　　 
Whatever one does, one must be an expert. He also carries out timely advance immunization, immunization before and after breeding, and immunization in spring and autumn, bringing the pig survival rate to 100%. He disinfects when entering and leaving the pigsty and monitors in a timely manner to ensure the safety of the pigsty. To ensure air circulation, he built a sunroom, added skylights, and even cultivated pots of fresh flowers. 
　　 
Accurately understand and grasp market conditions, and flexibly choose feeding methods  Zhang Baowu insists on fattening, selects pigs with growth capacity as fattening pigs and reserve fattening pigs and raises them in separate pens, builds breeding herds, and carries out self-breeding and self-raising, so that reserve pigs are always available for marketing at any time, ensuring a virtuous cycle. 

The power of example is endless. Zhang Baowu's success inspired everyone's enthusiasm for pig farming. His piglets sell very well locally. Local people say that when raising pigs, it is best to buy piglets locally, because then you know their background, infectious diseases are less likely to occur, and the risk is relatively small. At present, under his leadership, Chengbei Village has developed more than 30 farming households.