Chinese entrepreneur Angie Yu came to the City of Wickliffe in west Kentucky and opened the Two Rivers Fisheries to process fish from the Mississippi in 2012. /Xinhua Photo

Two Rivers Fisheries now employs 16 local residents doing processing work in the plant, and purchasing fish regularly from more than 70 of the region's fishermen. /Xinhua Photo

The production was 500,000 pounds in 2013, doubling to one million pounds in 2015, and further doubling to two million pounds in 2016. /Xinhua Photo

Wickliffe, a small town with a population of around 800, has a per capita income of slightly more than 17,000 US dollars and 16.1 percent population living below the poverty line, received Yu with open arms. /Xinhua Photo

"It [Two Rivers Fisheries] brought a little more hope that there would be more jobs. It's a good place and it's going to get better. Jobs are important, everybody likes jobs," Wickliffe Mayor George Lane told Xinhua. /Xinhua Photo