Business · Companies · 11 hrs ago
Taiwanese aquaculture firm brings new methods to Guangxi fishing village
Taiwanese businessman Huang Yicheng runs an aquaculture company in Beihai, in China’s Guangxi region.
He first visited Beihai in 2017 and set up the company in a village in Hepu County that year.
The company combines Taiwanese farming methods with local resources to raise valuable marine fish, including grouper and sea bass.
Its facilities include 1,260 mu of fish ponds and a 5,000-square-metre hatchery, alongside cold-chain and water-treatment facilities.
The company says its work has helped address low productivity and limited fish varieties in traditional local farming, and now reaches more than 400 nearby farming households.
It plans to share techniques and train more local fish farmers, while developing cold-chain projects and a tourism business linked to its fish farms.
It also aims to work with research institutions and explore greener and more technology-based farming methods.
Taiwanese entrepreneur Huang Yicheng brought aquaculture methods from Taiwan to Hepu County in Guangxi’s Beihai in 2017.
His company, Weifeng Aquatic Products, has built 1,260 mu of standardized fish ponds and a 5,000-square-metre hatchery.
The company raises high-value marine fish and has developed a chain spanning breeding, ecological aquaculture, processing and sales.
Its work has reached more than 400 nearby aquaculture households, according to Huang.
Huang says the company plans to expand cold-chain logistics and develop tourism linked to its fish-farming base.
- Who
- Huang Yicheng, chairman of Weifeng Aquatic Products, a Taiwanese-invested company in Beihai.
- What
- The company introduced Taiwanese aquaculture methods and developed fish farming in a Guangxi village.
- When
- Huang established the company in 2017. He spoke at the 22nd Guangxi-Taiwan Economic and Trade and Cultural Cooperation Forum, held October 19–21.
- Where
- Dalushan village, Zhakou town, Hepu County, Beihai, Guangxi, China.
- Why
- Huang said he was drawn by Beihai’s marine resources, investment environment and local people’s warmth. He said the company aims to benefit local residents.
This story does not have two clearly opposing sides.
Huang visited Beihai after being invited to a Guangxi-Taiwan cooperation forum and established Weifeng Aquatic Products that year.
The 22nd Guangxi-Taiwan Economic and Trade and Cultural Cooperation Forum was held in Nanning, where Huang gave a speech.
China News Service published its report on Huang and the company’s work in Beihai.
- Established
- 2017
- Fish ponds
- 1,260 mu
- Hatchery
- 5,000 square metres
- Households reached
- More than 400
- Main fish
- Grouper, cobia and spotted sea bass
1 source
What people are saying
The market is on the mainland; that is an indisputable fact. Opportunities are before us; this is a gift of the times.
We came to the mainland not only for our own careers, but also to benefit local people.
We must not only give people fish, but also teach them how to fish, so that the benefits of cross-strait cooperation truly reach thousands of households.