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China: Dedication to vegetables bearing fruit for Gui Fujiang

Gui Fujiang, a vegetable breeding expert at Shanghai Changzheng Vegetable Seed Company in Jiading, could easily have left his beloved vegetable farm in 1984, when the state requisitioned the land in his hometown and assigned them jobs in a local factory.

Back then, everybody thought being a factory worker was more comfortable and socially respectable than being a farmer.

Instead, Gui chose to continue growing vegetables at the Jiaxi Seed Farm. That year he was 40, and had been a vegetable breeding worker at Changzheng People’s Commune production team for 20 years.

Shortly after, Gui took over Shanghai Changzheng Vegetable Seed Company. The supply channels of vegetables were limited. Therefore Gui tried to breed his own.

One thing led to another. Now his Changzheng company has more than 1,500 varieties of premium-quality vegetables.

Read more at Shanghai Daily
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