As many college graduates find it difficult to seek a job after finishing school, some are looking to start their own business to avoid the stresses of the job hunt. Jiang Libin, who is from a poor village in North China’s Shanxi Province, is among those young entrepreneurs.

Jiang Libin is still a junior at the Shanxi Agricultural University, but that isn’t stopping him from starting his own business.

Unlike other students, Jiang Libin starts his day bright and early at a greenhouse near his school.His cash crop-- mushrooms.

“I came to college with my dream. Actually I knew exactly what I wanted do in college before I got here.” said Jiang.This humble office is where Jiang

Libin and his partners eat, live, and hold meetings.They take turns maintaining the greenhouses.It’s been three years since Jiang Libin started the business, expanding his first greenhouse to five.

He enlisted several of his classmates to become his business partners.

Knowing that there’s great demand for his mushrooms, he has managed to create business ties with 90% of the restaurants near his school.

The money Jiang Libin has earned through his mushroom business has paid for his tuition, computer, camera and driving lessons.

But Jiang Libin has even bigger dreams.

Jiang Libin grew up in Shanxi’s mountainous region of Taihang.

Many villagers there are so poor, they can’t afford fresh vegetables.

After hearing that the village head wanted Jiang Libin to return after he graduates to help his hometown, he couldn’t hold back his tears.Besides his mushroom business, Jiang Libin has also learned grafting.

He grafts walnut trees on hills in his hometown every summer holiday when he goes back.

The wild hillside now has about five thousand walnut trees, which brought 30-thousand yuan in revenue last year.With jobs so hard to come by, a growing number of college graduates have being starting their own businesses. Many of them are appealing for more support from the government. But Jiang Libin says it’s more important to rely on one’s own efforts.