Master's grad finds passion in poultry farm

Having studied for six years in Russia, Gong Guanghui did not follow his family's wishes and find a job in finance. Instead, he returned to his home village to follow in his father's footsteps, and has run a chicken farm for the past eight years.

Born in 1981 in Hunan province's Fengping town, Gong went to Russia for undergraduate study in 2003, after which he obtained a master's degree in economics and management from St. Petersburg State University of Economics in 2009.

Upon returning to China, he intended to work for a State-owned enterprise in Guangdong province. However, shortly after arriving in Guangdong, he visited a large-scale chicken farm with modern equipment belonging to Guangdong Wens Foodstuffs Group, and it occurred to him that chicken breeding was a potentially profitable business.