Chongqing convincing its talent to come home

Living alone in a hut by a fish farm, Ling Gangji raises snakehead fish, his second startup project in his hometown of Sanjia in Chongqing municipality's rural Yongchuan district.

Since graduating from college in 2009, Ling has run a successful restaurant business in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, opening 29 chain stores that sell boiled snakehead fish with pickled cabbage and chili.

However, when he first started his business, he often experienced a supply shortage of snakehead fish. At that time, most of the fish came from southern parts of China, such as Guangdong province, taking a long time to arrive in Chengdu. In order to meet the demand of his restaurants, Ling returned to his hometown and began to breed the fish himself.