Du Haotian, a student from Shaanxi Province, becomes popular online because of making guoba, a kind of snack(零食).
Usually, people use rice to make guoba. However, Du uses colored potatoes to make it.
Villagers in Zhenba County, Shaanxi Province, plant potatoes, but it is hard for them to sell potatoes. Du Haotian, a student of Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University(西北农林大学), together with his team, thought of the idea of colored potatoes to help sell the potatoes.
After trying and improving(改进) several times, the snack became popular at Du's university. "We made 10, 000 yuan in an hour, "Du said.
At the end of last year, Du's team opened their own factory in a village to process(加工)colored potatoes and make the snack in the county. At the beginning of this year, the production line(生产线) started. It can produce 5, 000 tons(吨) of potato snacks a year.
Du should have graduated(毕业) in June 2020, but he decided to graduate one year later. He said he still needed time to work in the factory. Finally, Du's teacher agreed with him.
Once, a villager showed the potato snack to Du, but the village r didn't know who he was. "At that time it warmed my heart, " Du said. Recently, Du's potato snacks joined in a local food game(当地的零食排行榜). His snack reached the top of the list because of the support of many villagers.