Selling Vegetables For 5 Years, Husband And Wife In Business For Tens Of Millions Of &Nbsp;

"No core."

Yesterday afternoon, the Suzhou Red Cross "Wei Zhi Xiang" love fund was set up by the joint venture of 3 local enterprises in Suzhou, and the first batch of 19 students with financial difficulties received funding from the Hong Kong.

In addition to the impressive live donations, Xia Jing and his wife, one of the fund contribuers and the head of a food limited company in Suzhou, changed from selling vegetable vendors to having tens of millions of assets in just 5 years.

On the day of the ceremony, Xia Jing and his wife, a food company in Suzhou, produced the first 200 thousand yuan to help those poor middle school students and poverty-stricken schools and hospitals.

Xia Jing and his wife promised that they would donate 2% of the company's annual operating profit to the "Wei Zhi Xiang" love fund every year, and the annual donation amount should be no less than 200 thousand.

After the donation ended, Xia Jing declined the media interview.

"It is the responsibility of every enterprise to give back to society," he said. "There is no room for publicity."

Xia Jing's wife Hu Jiahong told reporters that in fact, 5 years ago, two of them were ordinary workers who came to the Soviet Union and had tasted the hardships of life.

In 1996, Xia Jing, who was under 20 years old, came to Suzhou from Anhui alone, and then met Hu Jiahong.

"At that time, 2 of us had no skills and could only sell vegetables in a farmer's market near the three Xiang Road."

Hu Jiahong said that every day, when the sun was shining, two couples had to get up and carry vegetables, then pedaling tricycles to the market.

Business is not easy to do because we do not understand Suzhou dialect.

"Especially the old people, when we heard our foreign accents, ran to other stalls."

In order to maintain his livelihood, Xia Jing had to sell vegetables while doing other activities.

"In those years, he worked as a bricklayer and a whitewash. We sold fish balls and fried omelet together, but they were barely able to maintain them."

In 2005, in a conversation with a white-collar worker in a vegetable market, Xia Jing and his wife discovered opportunities for entrepreneurship.

"The white collar said that it was too much trouble to buy vegetables and stir fried vegetables."

Why do not you try to make a good material and condiment? When you get home, the two get the two thousand or three thousand yuan savings and start their own business.

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However, the reality is not optimistic. Hu Jiahong recalled: "at the beginning, many people felt that this kind of semi-finished dishes were not as good as buying vegetables, but there were very few customers."

In the first few months of entrepreneurship, Xia Jing and his wife almost broke even.

In the most difficult time, in order to save money, the two men's food for one day is a dollar of water spinach and rice.

"But we still got it, because there was no way out."

Hu Jiahong said that they insisted on this for a few months, and finally after more than 1 years, business has improved, more and more buyers, and began to have corporate customers to find cooperation.

Now, the annual turnover of the 30 year old couple has reached over 40 million, and hundreds of sales outlets have been set up around the country.

Hu Jiahong said: "we are all from rural areas. We often see many children drop out of school at home because of family poverty.

Now that we are in good condition, we should do our best to help them.