European carrier pigeons, once the hobby of worker, make a career.

In China, lovers and gamblers spend hundreds of thousands of euros for a copy.

“To make what is 65 years, as long as it makes the eyes”, he says and goes into his garden, enters a House that stood before his house, where he lives with Inge, his wife. He opens the door of the House called a strike, raising the voice, very gently, very gently, as he would with a child, speaks words that are rather tart: “Because, Yes Yes wat wat for?” Ritz welcomed his pigeons and doves cooing Diba and flutter, Micheal Ritz laughs: “Yes WAT do?”

65 years ago, Ritz was a little boy, he rode a bicycle through the streets of London on the lower Rhine, coal, open-pit mining Garzweiler lay under the Earth. Diba was sitting on the saddle, and he had put a chicken on the bar, but he dreamed of having a pigeon. , He says he wanted to have always been pigeons, and where pigeons were, he wanted to go.

But boy, you gotta learn the father said with pigeons you can not focus.

Boy, here you have a few pigeons, said relatives, and the boy took them and hid them in the barn, he fed her, only he didn't fly it, because the father should know nothing.

Micheal Ritz is 76 now, and now even people in Holland, Belgium, Thailand, Taiwan and China by him and his pigeons know. In Asia, as they call him Mister Heinz, the man whose Tauben can climb over mountains.

Inge, his wife, says: “For the pigeons went away all saved, he needed nothing, everything was just for his pigeons.”

Micheal says: “When I went to dinner, then I took the cheapest, the food for the pigeons was never expensive enough to me.”

Inge says: “But we have not suffered, until I got a living room cabinet so that I not bleated, and then he went to Belgium.”

After Belgium, Micheal drove Ritz, because there the brothers Janssen lived. The family had since 1884 doves fly, and they said she would have the best, even of the second world war, she was 50 alive. Ritz saved to afford a Janssen pigeons.

In the 1960s, he took one to London, 350 Deutsche mark.

In the 1970s a further 750 Deutsche mark.

In the 1980s when Ritz was in this country long known and his pigeons were long sought after because they flew so well, it was, who sold many of his pigeons - Asia. For one, he got 20,000 Deutsche mark and for an another 75,000, for many years was she the most expensive pigeon in the world, says Ritz.

Now a new record price for a pigeon from Europe was paid: a Chinese spent 310,000 euros. The Dove is named after Usain bolt, the record sprinter, bolt. Diba has Ritz with sale of bolt nothing to do, but he is the one who started by selling: the first, the pigeons from Europe brought to Asia.

So, a story that is not dusty tale about an old hobby into an old Germany begins with Micheal Ritz and his pigeons. She plays not only in places like London, and its protagonists are not only old breeder, there are young entrepreneurs from Belgium and super rich from China. Make the story, to a modern one, in itself shows how the European Dove, it may be so odd, was a product of the world market. Bluntly: the pigeon made career - she took off. As it came, is told here it starts very down to Earth, at Diba Ritz in London.

Ritz is a businessman, a skilled, but no one who's traveled around the world. He had a small grocery store in the village together with Inge. He got up at night, traveled to Düsseldorf at the wholesale market, drove back to the pigeons, gave them to eat, let them fly their rounds, went into the shop and after work in the Dovecote, again, he let fly. You trained for the weekend for the weekends anyway, which from April to September, were the pigeons, always. On vacation is not to think.

On weekends it's Ritz as of this Saturday, 13th June 2015 for decades at Diba and Inge, flight, route: 560 kilometers. It's raining, no good flying weather, wind from the North, North West. The pigeons have tailwind from Aachen, which has looked Ritz right in the morning on the Internet. Now, he sits in his living room on the couch, wearing socks in sandals, jeans, Plaid Shirt. On the table are the pigeon and Inges knitting magazine.

 

“Pigeons, dat is like addiction, as hash”

Micheal Ritz looks out of the window in his garden, left a pond, right of strike. He's waiting. 26 of his pigeons he has used: they are called that, when he, also, take them as the other members to his travel Association, the RV Grevenbroich. All pigeons are then taken away in a car this weekend to Blois, in a small town in the Loire Valley.

Ritz the TV turn on, WDR, Teletext, page 631, where he can see when the pigeons were released: they are called, if the car is opened and the doves fly out. 70 to 90 kilometers they create even 120 per hour, with a tail wind. French towns and villages, flying over Belgian cities and villages, each pigeon back in their blow back to the female, from which it was separated.

No matter where to put out a homing pigeon, it is geared and flying hundreds of kilometres far home to the place where she grew up. How she do that, no one could explain it probably depends on the Sun and the Earth's magnetic field. So she brought messages of love, King Salomon of the Queen of Sheba, messages from the front or from the football field once the mid-term results. in 1818, there was the first pigeon wettfluege in Belgium, the first major competition was from Toulouse to Brussels. Racehorse of the small man was called long the pigeon, the racehorse of the men in the mine. Dusty and dirty they came from work, had looked in the dark for hours, went to their pigeons, they let fly, looked to the sky. It was post-war economic miracle, there were most of the clubs in the Ruhr area, forever faithful old, Fürs fatherland, so they were called, and the breeder named buddy Karl and Taumvatter Jupp. They malochten underground, and then had her the pigeons in the sky watching. The man rested and waited for his pigeon which flew home.

“This moment”, says Driton,. “If one is in the air”, and falters.

“Then his heart goes on”, Inge continues.

“Then it is petrified with joy”, says Driton,. “to care for them, dragging them big, you prepare them, then you let it go.”

Easy, easy, gentle words, when he had spoken of a child, but he thinks Yes his pigeons when they come out after hundreds of kilometres just above the House in the clouds: “Dat is a moment, dat you can not describe. Dat is the favorite.”

Inge is in the kitchen, before one's is short. At 7:55, the pigeons have been abandoned. Diba now gets up from the sofa. “Right down the first”, says,. “I get the radio.” He comes back and keeps a box in the hands of CBH 2000, Grundig. “I had always been, or Inge? 40 years maybe?” Lately anyway, was the unit for repair. He put it next to the stove, takes the microphone and says: “Klaus, come in.” – “Yes”, says Klaus, and except for Klaus, you can hear much noise. Diba: “If you hear anything else, Klaus, you're through, Yes?”

Micheal some Sun in the sky, now looks, Inge covers the table on the terrace. She brings schnitzel, potato gratin, cauliflower and cucumber salad, and comes from the radio: “First Dove!” – “Understood”, says Ritz and looks in the sky. Only is a point that will be bigger and bigger, soon above him orbits, Micheal gets Ritz: “Come, come, come on, come on, come on.” The Dove sails down, into the beat. “First Dove, you can log, Inge.” Inge is sitting on the terrace and says: “It is now badly getimt with dinner.” Micheal comes to the table, takes the knife and fork, and look not on the plate, just in the air, head back, a point in the sky, circles, he gets: “Come on, come on, come on.” – “That's the thrill”, says Inge,. “as with the lottery game.”

It's about money but, money cannot win any Ritz, at the end of the season, there are trophies, but yourself Ritz would like to have any more. He had so many, that he gave his sister, who works with disabled people, which keep the cups in honor, he says, what should he do so, he donated them all to the basement.

What it's about: to Altehrwürdiges. Camaraderie, discipline, loyalty and longing. The dove, which is sent in the distance coming back. There was a time, as she fit into this country. She gave support after years of war, where everything had been unfounded.

The homing pigeon is a pigeon, not this city pigeons, rats of the air is called. Athletes of the skies is called the pigeons. For them, there are electrolytes with amino acids, garlic oil with lots of vitamin E: positively for the fertility vitamin capsules, eye and nose drops, herbal oils Atemfrei, and digestion, bath salts for a soft plumage, it removes dander and relaxes the muscles. There used for the flight days pigeon watches where the arrival time on the paper was punched, today the pigeons at the foot wear a chip, soon the breeder can track the flight of his pigeon on the tablet. For some a few flights there to win even more than trophies, in the North Sea race on Sylt, whose Taube is first, you will get a BMW Z4 or 30,000 euros.

It's just so: even if is the industry makes every effort, it seems, the pigeon no longer fits into the country. Pigeon racing is senior sports, half of the breeder is between 55 and 75 years old, a quarter of older. Speak with, always rates fall the breeders “formerly” begin.

Earlier, when he was a young boy, tells a man on the pigeon fair in Dortmund, he submitted a photo of Micheal Ritz from the pigeon newspaper under his pillow, fell asleep and dreamt to meet him.

Earlier, in the sixties, there were 103,000 breeder in West Germany, today there are 36,000 across the country.

Earlier, there were over one hundred pigeon fanciers in London, today there are four.

Earlier, Inge tells, while Micheal runs through the garden and looks to the sky, they had more viewers on the terrace.

Earlier, when his pigeons successfully flew, Ritz began to fly to Asia. He brings a Manila file folder, it says: “China travel”, he brings books with Chinese characters and images of doves, scrolls and searches his name in it, not so easy if everything is in Chinese.

Earlier, it was 1978: A Thai, a wealthy diamond merchant, was on a business trip in Germany, he came over at Ritz, bought a few pigeons, and back in Asia, he told of the pigeon fanciers from Germany. Soon Ritz sold one of his best pigeons to Taiwan. It was used only for farming, and because their descendants were also there the fastest, they wanted to have soon all Ritz pigeons. It was the Ritz pigeons that made it through the mountains on the island, climbed over the mountains, as they called it.

Soon they knew of them in China. In his folder, Ritz has collected reports and images from his travels: he on the pigeon fair in China, before a Dovecote in China, in a Chinese newspaper. Ritz in Asia was more than 30 times, often he was invited by rich pigeon breeders.

Initially, he says, he had to write so many autographs he got sore muscles.

In Thailand, he tells, he said someone, he should put on which Pigeon, then it was who won.

In China, he says, he visited a blow and immediately saw that one was sick, she had infected anyone.

“I'm looking for the eye”, says Ritz,. “There, shine in it must be as humans. A man has cloudy eyes, is also what not. In the eyes, you can see which is the smartest.”

Earlier, Ritz is now over for Micheal. He no longer plans to travel to Asia. Others are doing that now, because Ritz no longer is the only one from Europe that sold pigeons to Asia. Meanwhile, the phone which have fast pigeons when compared to the national and international competition ring for many breeders. A broker's, which tells that there are interested parties in Asia. The business is then often something dirty.

Some traders don't like to discuss how the pigeon comes to China. There, the import fees are very high, and many try to get around it. The price of the record pigeon bolt was specified with 99 Euros two years ago, while she was worth the 3.000-Fache.

Some growers do not like to discuss what they have sold, because others, it was that it got with someone and enlisted soon after the IRS. A German who lives only by his pigeons, had to pay €500,000, they say.

Ritz flips to the Chinese books. “Old time”, he says. “But it's your life”, Inge says. “A day not a pigeon in his hand, that want to I imagine”, says Ritz,. “Pigeons, dat is like addiction, like hash.”

It was a bit random, a bit of luck, that all people Seema made known Ritz, owner of a small grocery shop in the Rhineland, the dove in Asia and contributed to the fact that she was there that what it is in this country no longer: desires. The story about the rise of the pigeon is a narrative about how a tradition lost to their place of origin and in a new market-new power gained. So it happened that a venerable hobby seems no longer just old. That it is not more in particular hobby, but business.

The dove, once the racehorse of the small man of who is still racehorse - a man but who can win millions with her.

“At the beginning they have laughed at me”, founder of pigeon paradise, an auction company for racing pigeons, Nikolaas Gyselbrecht says “We made money not the first years.” Meanwhile, he has several employees: 18 in Belgium, ten in Taiwan and China and free agents in South Africa, Mexico, Iraq, America and many European countries.

Gyselbrecht is 35, a quiet type with rimless glasses, Belgians, very unobtrusive. His BMW in the hand of the Smartphone, a businessman in his own way is on the farm: dates he like wearing shorts and sandals. Gyselbrecht resides in Knesselare, an inconspicuous town near Ghent, sits in his company, which became a global auction platform, an eBay for racing pigeons.

 

The pigeon broker

A shield is pigeon paradise tucked away behind a hedge in a peaceful settlement with houses, much field drum, at the entrance of the House: “Pigeons from paradise, available on earth”. Stepping up, looking at seven pictures of pigeons, all framed, it is the most expensive pigeons, which they have so far sold. IKE: 250,000 euros, Dolce Vita: 250.400 euro and Center bolt: 310,000 euros. A steep, narrow wooden staircase leads to the first floor offices with a sloping roof. The headquarters of the company of pigeon paradise was once a dovecote.

Gyselbrechts great-grandfather, his father, both grandfathers and three uncles had pigeons. For them, it was a hobby, and even for Gyselbrecht it was one thing when he asked his father 12 years ago if he could give him a dove, he would try to sell them on the Internet. Gyselbrecht had studied economy and just graduated. He had a photo of the dove into the net, an Englishman paid 350 euros. He tried it on: auction of four young pigeons, 50 euro starting price. An American wanted to buy all four for 2,000 euros. When the call came, was Gyselbrecht shopping with his wife at IKEA. He suspected that he would make not ridiculous with this thing. He has been to the pigeon broker.

You ask Gyselbrecht, what constitutes a good pigeon, he calls one of its business partners, who can explain it better. Asked what drives him in his pigeon business, he brings his mobile phone and quoted from the speech by Steve Jobs of Apple founder Stanford delivered. Three hundred times, Gyselbrecht says he read it already, once he showed it to a friend: she had a good job at IBM, loved but yoga, now she lives by yoga. The speech was life-changing. Jobs reminded every day so to live as if it were the last: “You've got to find what you love” -do what you love.

Gyselbrecht loves more than the business with the Dove. Anyone who sold about pigeon paradise, he deserves around 35% of the price. More than Apple at sales on iTunes.

Trade with each other since decades pigeon fanciers with their pigeons, they do, to find new pairs for the young to get new blood in the strike. Gyselbrecht and pigeon paradise trading with pigeons, to continue the story of something that tells seemed to be coming to an end.

He will not even boast, that others would have to make, says Gyselbrecht and tells of another, who wrote on Facebook: this young man is for the pigeon sport what was Henry Ford for the auto industry and Bill Gates for the computer industry.

A pigeon from the Internet, laughed at first the breeder, a pigeon must you touch it, you must feel. “A pigeon must be monolithic”, Driton says Ritz,. “the first is the most important, then the decision is whether poor pigeon or good pigeon.”

Gyselbrecht wanted only the good ones for pigeon paradise. He went to the breeders, whose Tauben best years were flown and asked to get their best. He promised that a pigeon will achieve a higher price with many awards on its auction site, as if the breeder itself or through an offline retailer would sell them. He promised something that he could not know, but Gyselbrecht should keep quite. The prices, bidders came from South Africa, from Canada, from China.

Gyselbrecht agreed with some breeders that provided their pigeons only with him. By the names of breeders, pigeon paradise itself became a household name. Some can be in a single auction auction their entire Dovecote on the site. Belgium offered his 530 pigeons. The cheapest cost 425 euro, the most expensive was 310,000 euro - auction total bolt: 4.3 million euros.

A dove appears not only as a great pigeon because it flies well and quickly, and most schlauesten. A dove is now also a great pigeon, because she is worth a lot. Everyone can see how much on pigeon paradise.

There are breeders in Germany, who never met a pigeon paradise. Their pigeon remains their pigeon. They sell them for a fifty or a hundred times, they fly in their club, go on Saturday in the clubhouse, drink a beer, and it was good, what made the dove, they get a certificate and trophy.

There is only at the price of breeders, which is like, what does pigeon paradise, because their hobby has become a business and they can't believe that the prices for pigeons go ever higher, and they are wondering whether even that offer, to drive up.

There are breeders who say like pigeon paradise sport sees the little man may soon no longer play with prices - too high.

There are also breeders, like those making pigeon paradise, just because they can make money with their hobby – so high, prices.

The Chinese, in particular pay. There should be 300,000 farmers in China, 700 Chinese have bought pigeons in the last four years at pigeon paradise. There are not many, but many of them have a lot of money. “If no money from China in the game, we wouldn't exist perhaps as a company, that's our engine that keeps everything running”, Gyselbrecht says. With customers in China, he makes half of its sales. In one year he was ever 21 million euros, last at 12 million. Sales depends on which pigeons Gyselbrecht getting for its auction - whether the breeder has a name or his pigeon something to show: flying achievements or successful ancestors. And also whether it succeeds Gyselbrecht Dove and their breeders so to advertise, that you necessarily want to have the animal.

Recently, they had an auction, the it “Best of Germany” called: “German top breeders” provided that “Pearls of shock” that's called on pigeon paradise. At other auctions, they called pigeons “real collectibles”, “Cam”, “Superstars” and a single breeder “Phenomenon”, a “Monument in the international pigeon sport”. Superstars emerge from a few superlatives.

You can no longer say that it was luck or coincidence, that precisely Nikolaas Gyselbrecht, a Belgian economics student from the land, made exquisite the homing pigeon with his company of pigeon paradise and the sport to some exclusive. In China, where the European pigeon was already a brand, a brand made pigeon paradise. To buy in pigeon paradise was as chic as with Louis Vuitton to buy for some kingdoms.

Andreas Drapa wears an Armani Jeans, and in his hand he holds a leather bag also Armani. Drapa is 50 and looks like a boy half bald with grey hair have become old. He gladly shows what he has, and he's like talking about what he can not show: at home, in a Swabian town, six cars were Mercedes-AMG S63, a Porsche out of a limited edition. Drapa can't show it because he is now 7,880 km away, in Beijing, on the edge of the city, in a building that looks like a giant greenhouse, but many round tables are like at a gala.

It is the ceremony of the pioneer Club, an exclusive club, which hosts the largest pigeon race race in China. Is large: there is most of the money in the game. Each pigeon needs a ring on his leg to start. It costs participants tell between 1,000 and 3,000 euros. Drapa is every year, the most famous German, a welcome guest in China.

The story, which tells Andreas Drapa about themselves, sounds a bit like adventure novel - adventures of Andreas Drapa: as a boy he played with the pigeons with the grandparents, learned Tiler, had the opportunity to sign two professional football contracts, but rather something else wanted: pigeons. He bought that for 1,500, 2,000 mark, as he never could afford that, and paid off for months. Now there are the pigeons, which Andreas Drapa can afford everything. He is one of the very few German homing pigeon fanciers who can live only by their carrier pigeons. He had to work hard, only two months a year a few stores, otherwise he mind his pigeons. He saw the world through the pigeons, Drapa says America, Dubai, and then was he seven years ago in China, gave a few pigeons in an auction, and noted: “Is net bad in Asia you can what.” He was looking for people with whom he worked, and rebuilt as a brand. “Michael Schumacher of the pigeon sport” was in a Chinese book about him. My pigeons, he says, are for the adidas. He goes to the pigeon fair in China, it takes three, four hours, until it away to buy everything. “Isch scho expensive for me”, said Drapa, but he knows the Chinese, Yes: “Sometimes denkscht now I conclude by the money, but I net. She make Russian no thought. Cheap pigeon take the net at all.”

Drapa is a strange mixture “I'm the Bodenständigste here” and “I am the fattest business here”.

His first big winner, he narrated was called E.T.. His best in the strike, on which based its success and its business: Skyfighter, Pokerface, Aventador, total: Drapa estimates 500,000 to 600,000 euros, but he would never sell them. And then there are: Messi, Crown Prince, Rihanna, Mona Lisa, Mr. Sauerland, Miss world. Hansi and Fritz, said Drapa, can you not give the pigeons, we apply here as the best of the best, so also the pigeons need to hot. A European Dove, which is like a Gucci bag.

Drapa. When the Chinese brands, in him they have found one.

Drapa. His name is called, he goes beyond the red carpet on the stage and sits behind a long table, he will award prizes for the winners. Shortly before, he still told that it is a bit embarrassing for him up there to sit as Europeans in addition to all the Chinese. What one considers it not possible: Drapa could be anything embarrassing.

A woman in a glittery dress moderated. Women in dresses, not glittering, Golden trophies, which Cup to Cup will be greater and a pigeon sitting on top, bring also golden. Pigeons and clouds of cardboard and the BMW emblem, also made of cardboard hanging from the ceiling. Some get even a Rolls-Royce, a BMW gets who put on the right Dove. It should be a bit solemn, drifting effect but as in a shopping mall, no one who gets a trophy, broadcasts, viewers crack pistachios and peanuts on the tables, there is rice wine and tea.

At the edge of the room 297 cages are built, each a dove. You are the winner, you could also say: high life winner. 8,000 doves competed, in four races, each approximately 500 kilometers long. All only young pigeons were not even a year old, that older they may no longer start. Unlike in Europe, the pigeons in China have only a chance to show whether they are athletes or not. The pigeons, not coming back are lost. They were lured by food along the route and caught, they made flabby and died, the weather was bad, and they strayed up, fog and anyway much smog.

Under these conditions, animal welfare, would be in Germany says a German entrepreneur, who is in China to sell pigeon medicines.

He says: but if there is not even human, who already cares for rights of carrier pigeons.

He says: pigeon sport in China has yet no tradition as ours.

He says: this is just along for the.

Earlier, in the sixties, seventies, something was ripped off the German pigeon sport. It was bet on pigeons, a few Deutsche mark on those who came back first, 50 Deutsche mark may, 100 were already very much.

“In China, this is a disease with the bets, therefore, who are so addicted to pigeon”, says Driton Ritz, the breeders from the Rhineland. “Chinese have betting in their blood”, says Luna Lai, pigeon Paradise's China agent.

Actually, betting in China is illegal.

One has to ask the President of the pioneer Club, he is dismissive. It won't go to the betting, he says it go only to the sport. It only involves betting, Europeans who are versed in China, say they are talking about higher millions, which are in the game, amounts that increase every year.

“Is of Nice a simple a lottery”, says Andreas Drapa, the Swabian pigeon fanciers.

Drapa seems a bit proud, that he take part in this exclusive race, the courts are in great demand among wealthy Chinese. At the same time he says again: so something crazy like this nobody'd believe friends at home.

He is no longer on the stage, but before that at a table, crack some nuts and told that there are several participants who lost five million euros in recent years at the races. He always won, this year for the first time a “small minus” made as Drapa puts it. What that means, says he does not, and what he has not won in the years, that he leads in no book. This year only one of his 12 used pigeons came back. She was among the top 100, after all. With her he will make now money, because pigeons will be auctioned after the award ceremony of the pioneer Club: all of the 297 which came back in the race, and 26, who brought with him a delegation of pigeon paradise.

They're 323 pigeons and Drapa must wait until his pigeons in the cage is brought forward and placed on the red carpet. As it is so far after three hours, a German colleague next to him says: “Here, yes the Drapa comes his butterfly.” The butterfly goes away for 80,000 yuan, 11,000 euros. Isch scho well, said Drapa. The next dove on the red carpet is brought immediately, no fuss, no clapping.

Three hours later will be clapping as the hall floor has a new carpet: from Nutshells, and many tables have a new decoration: auctioned pigeons in cardboard boxes. The last three doves are in front on the podium, the winner of the race. The dove on 3rd is auctioned for 145,000 euros. 2nd place: 220.000 euro. Seat 1: 250,000 euros.

For all 297 pigeons of the race, it is not only the end of the season, but also the end of their sports career. You could say they retire. She may not be dismissed from the responsibility. Although they no longer have to fly, but they should provide elite junior, which will start next year at the race of the pioneer Club.

The site of the pioneer Club is similar to an American Ranch. The entrance gate with two Greek columns, in between an iron gate, at the top the logo: a red star and Golden font pioneer. Breeders rent their just-hatched pigeons in the spring in shock, clinker construction there, nine, they look like single family homes in a settlement. 120 birds in a House, two rooms for animals, behind them two rooms for the people. Impact Manager live there during the season, feed, clean, let the pigeons fly, training for the race.

Are not only rich, having pigeons in China, but are the rich people who come together in this exclusive club, whose race is about big money. A breeder great wall calls himself only he affords a blow for 120 pigeons alone. Great Wall is actually called Guo Weicheng, co-founder of a pharmaceutical company. 2014 he was on the Forbes list of richest Chinese on course 159, estimated assets: US$ 1.26 billion. Great Wall doesn't want to talk. And also Xing Wei, another major participant of the race, don't want only. Then he said to, on one condition: it should not go to the big money.

So it goes once to IKE. IKE, sober words, this is the bird BELG 2008-4351119, and in another number: 250,000 euro purchase price. IKE, 2008 born in Belgium, residing in China since 2010. When XING about IKE, then it sounds a moment so gently, as if the German breeder Micheal his pigeons welcomes Ritz, so gentle when he spoke of a love. A picture of IKE hanging in when company for real estate and project development in Tangshan, two hours drive from Beijing. A picture of IKE is also on the teapot, which is on the table in a conference room. XING, narrow face, narrow shape, legs sits struck each other at one end of the table. He says what was to guess: “IKE is my favorite Dove.” He smiles very politely, he replies very close.

Mr Xing, why do you deaf like so much?

He tells it like longer: he was a little boy, at the age of five, as a big earthquake 1976 Tangshan destroyed, in the rubble, he saw a pigeon. He wanted to be sure they have, soon thereafter, the neighbor gave him one. One year he held her in the yard, then she disappeared, he never forgot them.

Meanwhile, XING has almost 4,000 pigeons. He is one of the most important customers of pigeon paradise, the brokers from Belgium. He has spent millions of euros on European pigeons, he's looking for it not only over the Internet, he travels to Europe for them. You'd think with so many pigeons who came from Europe to China, no longer would be needed. But the European pigeon seems to be, you can't get enough of something.

When pigeons live, where in other companies the heads sit - on the top floors. He must take care not even they, impact Manager to do this, XING is taking care of a larger goal: he wants to create the best pedigree of China from the best pedigrees of Europe. He wants to create a Chinese IKE by using European Ikes. IKE is a plant.

XING can build a new House on his company premises. It is not for people, not for employees, it is for new pigeons. 8,000 will soon have XING. “Pigeons are a key investment in the future”, says XING,. “the Dove market in China will grow, I'm sure.”

Maybe the House is, the XING builds, so for employees. Maybe he is one of his pigeons soon its most important employees.

The European carrier pigeon was once a symbol of the economic miracle, she should now bring about economic miracle in China. The story of their rise: You is not here yet long to end.

Source: Sonja Hartwig
THE time no. 52/2015, 23 December 2015

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