Gu was born in a peasant family in Zhencun, 1962. 1978, junior high school was forced to drop out of school and go home to work. 1980, unwilling to be mediocre, Gu borrowed 800 yuan and bought an old walking tractor to carry water and thresh for the villagers, becoming the first tractor driver in the local area. Later, he borrowed 500 yuan from the village credit cooperative and contracted the trade warehouse in Minzhu Street Township, Cao Wu Town. 1987 sales reached 4 million yuan, and he dug the first bucket of gold to create wealth; 1989 registered Hengda Trading Company, which was the first to operate wholesale department stores and soon became a leader in the wholesale department stores in new cities. From 65438 to 0996, he set foot in making cartons and made considerable profits. 1999, he raised 3 million yuan, bought jingshan county Horticultural Factory, built a factory building, and added cardboard production lines and color printing equipment. Hengda Carton Factory came into being, and its business scope rapidly expanded to more than ten provinces and cities. 200 1, jingshan county sells the closed fine powder plant. Gu bought it and put it into production in just a few years, with an output value of more than 90 million yuan. At the end of 2005, he bought Zhongxiang Flour Factory and became the leader of Jingmen Flour. His "Dragon Dance" brand flour and noodles won the famous trademark of Hubei Province. In 2007, Hengda invested in a rice mill and a new production line with a daily output of 75 tons of high-quality rice. In 20 10 year, the annual output value of the whole company is10.80 billion yuan, and the sales revenue is10.65 billion yuan; In the past 20 years, the carton factory, flour mill and trading company he runs have accepted more than 300 employees' employment, arranged free housing for some employees, and purchased insurance and free medical examination for employees. Over the years, he has distributed benefits to employees, purchased insurance and donated more than 3 million yuan to public welfare undertakings inside and outside the county. Among them, during 1998 flood fighting, Gu dragged a truck of noodles and mineral water to Shashi to express his condolences to the flood fighting soldiers. After being elected as the first "Star of Entrepreneurship" in the county in the winter of 2009, he sent noodles and rice worth 5,000 yuan to the old people in the county welfare home. After the Wenchuan earthquake in May 65438+February 2008, Gu organized employees to donate more than 40,000 yuan. Shortly before the accident, he also donated 200,000 yuan to build roads in his hometown of Caowu Town.