The dirt road by the sea is uneven, the road surface happens to have just been filled with soil, and the car has a hard time climbing through the last kilometer of the soft collapse and stopping in a courtyard. The sea breeze was blowing, with the smell of the sea, and we stepped out of the car in turn.
The timing is already late autumn, autumn in Hainan is not as cool as in the north, and the light from the direct sun will still scorch the skin. In the afternoon sun shines on the town of Foluo in Ledong County, which is located at 18 degrees north latitude, in a courtyard on the northwest coast of the town, a man stands in the sun, his name is Wang Zhiying, the general manager of Hainan Yiyi Aquatic Products Co., Ltd. Under his guidance, we walked into the mariculture workshop, chose a relatively quiet place, and began this interview.
Inland Hanzi chose to stay in Hainan to start a business
At a glance, Wang Zhiying is a typical northern Man. "I was born in Korla, Xinjiang, and in 2002 I joined the army and came to Hainan to serve in a naval unit." As soon as he opened his mouth, the regional characteristics of the Great Northwest were also particularly distinct in his accent.
A young man who grew up in the heart of the Asian continent came from far away from the sea to Hainan Island, surrounded by the vast sea, and was listed on the naval ships, and has since formed an indissoluble relationship with the blue land. Thinking about Wang Zhiying's life history, it is full of legendary colors.
"Hainan gave me the opportunity to realize my dreams." Wang Zhiying said that when he came out of an inland city, the place he most wanted to go was where there was the sea. In 2018, when he retired from the above correction regimental post, he did not hesitate to choose to stay in Hainan and choose his own career.
What to do? Wang Zhiying didn't think clearly for a moment and a half. Soon after retiring from the army, he came to Guangzhou and began to do seafood business. Eating in Guangzhou, Guangzhou people dare to eat and taste also sharp, the better the seafood ingredients are more popular. When one day, a comrade-in-arms told him that the red eastern star spot could be cultivated in Hainan, his eyes lit up, "This can be dried!" ”
Wang Zhiying knew the market value and popularity of The Red East Star Spot, and realized that she seemed to have found a fulcrum that could leverage entrepreneurship. In addition to the excitement, he knew that he could not pry this cornerstone of a successful career on his own. He hastily gathered some retired comrades-in-arms to discuss the major issues of entrepreneurship. After several heated collisions and arguments, everyone finally unified their thinking and decided to do this big thing together.
14 comrades-in-arms pooled their money to start a business.
Cultivating red eastern star spots, a net income of 1 million yuan a year
Located near 18 degrees north latitude, Hainan Ledong County is one of the few golden latitude counties on the mainland. The southwest of Ledong County is a continuous coastline, which is the most suitable area for the cultivation of red eastern star spots. In 2019, Wang Zhiying and 13 comrades-in-arms pooled 2.3 million yuan and organized a group to come to Yinggehai Town, Ledong County, where they rented 50 fish ponds on the seashore of Yinggehai Town and began to try to raise Red East Star Spots.
Farming red eastern star spots requires professional skills, although these retired soldiers have lived on warships for many years and are particularly close to the sea, but they do not know how to engage in breeding. Old sailors encountered new problems, which was difficult for them, and those who did not understand could learn it! They sincerely learn from local farmers, transfer the experience accumulated by others to their own knowledge reserves, and then seriously digest and absorb them, becoming their own housekeeping skills.
In just over a year, the red east star spots cultivated by Wang Zhiying and his comrades-in-arms were listed, and they earned more than 1 million yuan in a calculation, which can be described as a victory.
Then keep up the good work! The 14 comrades-in-arms deliberated again and decided to expand the scale of breeding. It just so happened that the lease period of the fish pond rented by them was only 1 year, and after they tried their cattle knife, they began to move to another seaside township near Yinggehai Town, Fro Town, where they rented 35 acres of seaside wasteland in Dajiao, Fengtang Village, Fro Town, and began to build a breeding base for Red East Star Spot.
Construction of a modern marine aquaculture base with technical content
"The whole base was designed by myself, one to save money, and the other is that I have the ability to do it myself." Wang Zhiying, who joined the army after finishing college in Wuhan, is full of the frankness and self-confidence of a science man. He wants to build a modern breeding base with a certain technical content on this leased land.
From seawater injection pipelines, to seawater purification, seawater circulation systems, etc., every aspect of the design has been carefully considered. Wang Zhiying said that as long as these links are clearly thought out and understood, civil engineering and follow-up aquaculture and other businesses will be done once and for all.
According to the planning and design, Wang Zhiying will build 710 standard modern fish ponds on 35 acres of land. If it can be successfully put into operation, it is expected to produce 170,000 kilograms of red eastern star spotted commercial fish per year, with an output value of 30 million yuan and a profit of up to 12 million yuan.
"Mariculture is a high-input, high-return, high-risk industry." Wang Zhiying said that in addition to the rent of the land, the initial investment in basic facilities needs a lot of money. After all, the funds that Wang Zhiying and his comrades-in-arms can scrape together are limited, far from reaching the required amount of funds. While seeking loans, they adopted the model of breeding while building, investing, building and returning funds in batches, "At present, there are still 8 million yuan in arrears, and it is expected that they will be fully repaid by the end of this year." ”
According to Wang Zhiying, the Red East Star Spotted Fish starts from about 10 cm of nursery fry, and can grow to more than 1 kg in about 1 year to 1 and a half years, and more than 1 kg is the finished fish. At present, the finished fish in the market is in short supply and is not worried about selling at all. This year, it can produce about 70,000 catties of finished fish, and the income from seedlings is also more than 3 million yuan.
In order to revitalize resources, Wang Zhiying's base has introduced two large breeding households for cooperation, they are professional households that have been engaged in marine aquaculture for decades, not only have strong funds, but also have quite mature technology. "When everyone is together, technology can take care of each other, and risks can be shared by each other, which is also a group warmth." Wang Zhiying said that after spending a long time in the army, there is now a feeling of disconnection from society. I have taken many detours before, and now although the road to entrepreneurship has been on the track, I still have to be a student first.
"These partners are teachers, and we need to keep learning, learning from partners, learning from society, learning from the market." Wang Zhiying said that marine aquaculture is very technical, we not only have to strengthen technical capabilities, but also carry forward the advantages of strong execution of military personnel, implement refined management in enterprises, through the quantification of specific indicators of each link, the loss rate, fish production rate are quantified into operable data, and then through daily newspapers, weekly reports and other related perfect systems, accurate assessment. "My goal is to build a modern marine aquaculture base with technical content with mature technology, perfect system and accurate management." (Tsering Roga)