Grower cultivating taste for raspberries

Entrepreneur returns to hometown in Hubei province from Canada to achieve his farm dream

After years in Canada, nobody expected businessman Huang Yuanchao to return to Tianmen in central China's Hubei province to start a raspberry empire.

Born into a rural family in Tianmen, Huang started work in 1986, after graduation, as an automation engineer at a Beijing research institute. Bored with the routine of the job, he started his own trading company in 1993 selling merchandise, including imported cars, and made a fortune in the course of a decade.