At the high-quality development conference of the bamboo industry in Daguan County, a group of enterprises and cooperatives with ingenuity and hard work to promote the development of the bamboo industry were commended. There is a couple who "fly together" among them, they are Kang Guishu and Ou Xianqin, who work hard and start a business with the spirit of craftsmen.
Relying on the development advantages of Daguan's "one county, one industry" bamboo industry, Kang Guishu and his wife have successively founded Daguan County Xuhong Planting and Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative and Yunnan Xizhizhu Culture Technology Co., Ltd., which are mainly engaged in the processing of bamboo and round bamboo products. Ou Xianqin served as the chairman of the cooperative and the chairman of the company, and Kang Guishu served as the chairman of the board of supervisors of the cooperative and the general manager of the company.
Behind the successful entrepreneurship of Kang Guishu and his wife, there are many touching stories.
Before February 2018, Kang Guishu was a migrant worker and a technical backbone in the factory, with a monthly salary of about 20,000 yuan. Because his elderly parents needed to take care of him, he discussed with his wife Ou Xianqin to return to his hometown of Yinji Village, Mujiao Town, to start a business. Ou Xianqin, who is also working hard, mainly does drug sales, with a monthly income of about 30,000 yuan. In order to support her husband's entrepreneurship, she resolutely gave up the career that was going well.
After returning to Yinji's hometown, Kang Guishu and his wife founded the Daguan County Xuhong Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative, and took out many years of savings to circulate more than 8,000 acres of bamboo forests, planning to manage and protect the bamboo forests and sell bamboo shoots.
In August 2018, Daguan County held the first phase of the training for skilled workers in the bamboo industry, and Kang Guishu and his wife participated in the training. During the training, the couple fell in love with bamboo processing, and since then they have embarked on the road of bamboo material handicraft processing and entrepreneurship.
"We have a lot of bamboo materials in our local area, so I want to make use of them. The materials are relatively close, and it is much more convenient to take materials on the spot than to go outside to buy materials. After discussing with my daughter-in-law, she also agreed, so I went to Zhejiang and other places to study, came back to build a factory, and then slowly studied and made bamboo craft products. Kang Guishu, who is not good at talking, talked about the process of entrepreneurship and development of bamboo handicraft processing.
The factory has been built, but the bamboo handicraft processing technology is difficult, what to do if there is no technology? The couple inquired about the bamboo handicraft processing training everywhere, as long as there is a training and learning opportunity, they will not let go once. However, training can only solve some simple and superficial things, and key technologies still cannot solve and break through. Therefore, they hired technical personnel to the factory for training, and processed and obtained technology in their own factories in the form of order cooperation and sharing. At the same time, by ordering finished bamboo handicrafts for disassembly and assembly, we carry out learning and research.
"On the way we did it, I still thought about giving up, because it was really too difficult, but I saw that he could squat on the edge of the smoker for a day because of the research on a smoker, and I saw his persistence and determination to do this industry, and we encouraged each other to do a good job in bamboo processing. Recalling the ups and downs of development, Ou Xianqin's eyes were full of dedication to her career.
In 2019, the bamboo fire machine, bamboo brush, bamboo cane and other products produced by the cooperative were loved and concerned by everyone at the South China Expo, which increased the confidence of Kang Guishu and his wife to develop and expand the bamboo industry and process bamboo handicrafts more refined and stronger.
The cheerful and generous Ou Xianqin is mainly responsible for business contact and product promotion, while Kang Guishu, who is not good at talking, focuses on production technology and quality control. Outside the female protagonist and inside the male protagonist, the two complement each other.
In April 2019, the cooperative re-expanded the processing plant with the support of county-level funds. In order to further enhance the market competitiveness, Ou Xianqin went to Zhejiang Suoshi Bamboo Industry Co., Ltd. for special technical training, and introduced advanced equipment and professional technical personnel from Zhejiang and Fujian, expanding the processing of bamboo products from simple handicrafts to the field of furniture. At the end of the year, Kang Guishu and his wife established Yunnan Xizhizhu Culture Technology Co., Ltd. on the basis of Daguan County Xuhong Breeding Farmers Professional Cooperative, with Ou Xianqin as the company's legal person, adopting the development model of "company + cooperative + branch + farmer", processing bamboo into beautiful and practical handicrafts for sale, increasing the added value of bamboo, realizing a breakthrough in the processing and development of Zhaotong bamboo bamboo, and effectively enhancing the reputation and popularity of Daguan bamboo products.
After 5 years of unremitting exploration, Kang Guishu and his wife rely on the "special" advantages of Xiaozhu, and the products produced by the company have developed from a single product to five types: cultural and creative tourism, furniture, tea culture, decoration and customization, and the orders cover Shanghai, Zhejiang, Guizhou, Guangdong, Sichuan and other provinces and cities.
As the company of Kang Guishu and his wife continues to grow and develop, the local people have also benefited. The circulating bamboo forest is divided into fixed dividends of 500,000 yuan per year, covering 287 rural households. The number of permanent employees in the factory has grown from 5 at the beginning of the establishment of the factory to 109 now, and the local left-behind women, the disabled and the left-behind elderly can be employed nearby, with an average monthly salary of 5,000 or 6,000 yuan. In 2023, the company will pay 5.67 million yuan in wages to employees and 2.6 million yuan in funds for the purchase of bamboo straw.
Taking advantage of the development of the county's bamboo industry, Kang Guishu and his wife are full of confidence in the deep processing of bamboo, Ou Xianqin said: "Next, we will also drive more cooperatives, family farms and farmers to participate in the processing of bamboo, and publicize the bamboo handicrafts and bamboo furniture, and go to the whole country and the world." ”
Editor丨Pan Haiyan Editor|Li Zihong