History, Present Situation and Future of Jade Industry in Pingzhou, Guangdong Province

The South China Sea has a long history and splendid culture. Land of fish and rice, rich in material wealth. Outstanding people, rich economy. Excellent geographical location and convenient traffic conditions. It has always been in the forefront in the evaluation of the top 1 counties and cities in China. In 26, the region achieved GDP of 95 billion yuan, fiscal revenue of 11.68 billion yuan, and the balance of residents' deposits of 95.2 billion yuan.

Pingzhou jade industry in Guicheng, Nanhai has a history of more than 3 years. It has gone through several stages of development, such as training talents from commune and team enterprises, reform and opening up, individual operation, and the formation of a jade industry with characteristics. Up to now, it has begun to take shape and become famous at home and abroad, which has played a positive role in the development of local economy and the building of regional brands.

in recent years, local party committees and governments have attached great importance to the development of Pingzhou jade industry, invested huge sums of money, integrated social resources, vigorously promoted the road construction, market expansion, old street reconstruction and environmental improvement of Pingzhou jade market, and actively grasped the construction of trade associations, integrity alliances, testing centers and jade carving schools, laying the foundation for further expanding and strengthening this industry. In particular, Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association has made outstanding contributions to the development of Pingzhou jade industry. The district party committee and district government will intensify their efforts to promote the cultivation and development of this industry in the future, and strive to build it into a distinctive and advantageous industry and a beautiful city business card in our region.

I believe that with the strong care and support of China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Industry Association and the concerted efforts of all parties concerned, Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Characteristic Industrial Base will certainly be able to make further progress and have a better development prospect.

head of Nanhai District People's Government, Foshan City, Guangdong Province

District Bangmin

Chairman of Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association Liang Huanglin

Pingzhou Jade Market is one of the four major jade markets in China, and it is also one of the three major jade processing, production and wholesale bases in Myanmar. At present, it has become one of the largest jade and stone distribution centers in Myanmar. Up to now, there are more than 8 jade manufacturers and more than 8, employees.

Hu Guoxiong, secretary of the Party Working Committee of Guicheng Street

Acky Lee, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee of Guicheng Street and director of the office

1. The Pingzhou jade market is now in its embryonic form

In the mid-197s, three brothers, Chen Guang, Chen Zuorong and Chen Ruinan of Duntou Village in Pingdong, founded the Pingdong Duntou jade processing factory. At that time, it belonged to a "Shedui" enterprise, which mainly undertook the jade outward processing of Guangdong Arts and Crafts Import and Export Corporation. Because they are superior to other processing points in workmanship and low price, they have won a good reputation, so the processing business has increased greatly, creating rich income for the team and cultivating a large number of outstanding talents.

In the early 198s, the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China brought order out of chaos, and the good policies of reform and opening up shone and moistened the land of China like sunshine and rain, and self-employed and private workshops sprang up like mushrooms after rain. Technicians from Duntou Jade Factory and local jade experts and craftsmen have raised their own funds to purchase Myanmar jade stones from the China-Myanmar border in Yunnan, which are produced and sold by family workshops. The finished jade products are sold in jade shops in changshou road and Hualin Temple, Guangzhou, and they are gradually becoming famous and popular in the industry for their high quality and low price. Soon, it became famous in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and Southeast Asia, which made merchants of jade products from all over the world come here to buy it. At this point, the Pingzhou jade market began to form, and the production and sales were booming.

Second, a hundred schools of thought contend and prosper gradually.

In the mid-199s, with the care and support of Pingzhou District Committee Office and the Party branch of Pingdong Village, a lot of manpower and funds were invested to turn Pingdong Avenue into Pingzhou Jade Street, so that the sales of jade articles were concentrated in shops on both sides of the avenue, and the operation and management were standardized, and the public security and hygiene were greatly improved. Banks also provide loan support to merchants who need capital turnover. Good business environment and policy environment have attracted many foreign colleagues to set up factories and open shops in Pingzhou. Due to the joining of foreign manufacturers and skilled craftsmen, the jade products of Jade Street in Pingzhou include flowers, ornaments, seats, playthings, miscellaneous parts, Zhong Kui, dragon hooks, seals, flowers, birds, insects, fish, Chinese zodiac, A goods, B goods, C goods, B+C goods, etc., high and medium. High-grade A goods can not only beautify life, but also have great potential for maintaining and increasing value. Goods B and C have huge markets and consumer groups because of their low price and good quality, which has formed a prosperous business situation in Pingzhou jade market.

Liang Huanglin, President of Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association

III. Frustrations and difficulties in development

By the beginning of the 21st century, the Pingzhou jade market has been quite large, and hundreds of jade merchants often go to Yingjiang County, Yunnan Province to purchase jade. Due to the disunity of Pingzhou jade colleagues, they clashed with each other in bidding, which resulted in many contradictions and resentment. This fatal weakness was noticed by the local jade boss, who deliberately used contradictions to sow discord, bid up the price of jade and reap the benefits of fishermen. Undoubtedly, this not only made our colleagues lose money, but also hurt their feelings. The local jade boss doesn't talk about credibility, deliberately deceives, and sells fakes. There are many traps. Although our colleagues are greatly dissatisfied, they can't compete with local strongmen, so they have to submit to it, knowing that they can only break their teeth and swallow blood. At the same time, there are also a few black sheep among our peers. When retailing jade articles, they are shoddy, shoddy, fake and genuine, and forced to buy and sell, which not only damages the economic interests of consumers, but also tarnishes the reputation of Pingzhou jade market.

Emerald Bracelet

IV. Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association came into being

In September p>21, due to the need of industry rights protection and industry self-discipline, Pingzhou jade operators spontaneously held democratic elections and were registered with Nanhai Civil Affairs Bureau with the approval of Pingzhou District Office. On December 25th of that year, Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association was formally established. After the establishment of the association, the office was located in the corner of the second floor of Pingdong Village Committee. The Council immediately formulated the "Regulations on the Trading of Jade Market in Pingzhou" and hired full-time staff to handle complaints. Fake sales and fraud have rarely occurred. The leading group of the association and the members of the board of directors volunteered to mediate and arbitrate countless contradictions and disputes in business and between employers and employees, and the industry self-discipline work achieved immediate results and received good results. Contradictions are not intensified and handed over, which reduces a lot of work and pressure for the relevant government management departments.

pingzhou jadeite rough stone trading

under the pleading, mobilization and lobbying of members of the board of directors of the association and legal representatives in Myanmar, we won the support of several major jade mining companies, transported the jade directly to pingzhou and sold it to local jade counterparts, avoiding intermediate links and benefiting both parties, thus enabling pingzhou jade merchants to obtain a better purchasing environment and choice. Sending jade to Pingzhou for direct sale has brought many benefits to colleagues: ① It is just like playing football. In the past, our long-term away game had many disadvantages, but now we have the advantage of home court, which can be said to be easy and leisurely. ② While the legitimate rights and interests are effectively protected, the expenses and time for purchasing jade from Yunnan and Myanmar are saved. ③ The accommodation and entertainment consumption of many foreign jade merchants in Pingzhou has greatly promoted the local tertiary industry.

The mystery, excitement and fun of gambling on jade make many people choose the stone gambling industry. The gambling stone industry has been discovered, mined and entered China with the jadeite jade stone in Myanmar for hundreds of years. Gambling stone can make people rich overnight, and it can also make people lose everything overnight. In the gambling stone industry, the drama of ups and downs is played from beginning to end.

A businessman who gambles on hooded jade makes a cut or two in the place he thinks is the best, and then sells it. Even the jade that has been made is still very gambling. According to the quality of the interface part of the jade, the weight of the jade and the performance marks on the leather shell, the buyer judges the expectation and evaluation of whether the quality of the interface will become better or worse after the purchase, and the buyer and the seller usually get close to each other by bargaining. The jade owner first offered the sky-high price and other buyers to bargain, and at the same time let different buyers look at the goods and bargain separately in order to find the buyer with the highest bid. During the period, sometimes because of the difference in evaluation, the buyer and the seller did not give way to each other, which lasted for a long time, and it was impossible to make a deal, and the time was wasted. It is criticized and intolerable by modern people with fast pace of life and strong sense of time.

In view of this, Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association dared to take the lead and pioneered the reform of traditional trading methods. In the summer of 23, it began to hold a jade bidding fair, with the method of secret bidding, the principle of winning the highest price and upholding justice. Build a platform for the industry to exchange needed goods and optimize the allocation of jade resources. After the trial, it received rave reviews, which attracted jade merchants from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Myanmar to flock to it, basically replacing the traditional bargaining jade trading method, and it has shown great vitality day by day. Therefore, the Pingzhou jade market is full of vitality and famous.

With the rapid increase in the number of jade and traders in Pingzhou, the operators in the industry from four places on both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Myanmar are flocking to it. As a result, the original empty shops, buildings and even buildings adjacent to Jade Street are all rented out, and the rent is rising, which is very obvious. Due to the shortage of shops, some foreign investors can only process in Pingzhou and rent shops in Guangzhou. Some of them set up shop in Pingzhou to buy stones for processing, and their finished products are taken to other provinces for consignment, just like a golden rooster is independent; Some foreign franchisees who are ill-informed and have no friends in Pingzhou have no place at all.

a large number of phoenixes have arrived without nests. The number of original shops is small, the decoration level is low, the streets are narrow, and the venue of the jade bidding fair is narrow and crude, which is really difficult to accommodate and adapt to more and more guests coming from afar to participate in the jade fair. In addition, with the mixed operation of A, B and C goods, the quality supervision and testing station of jewelry and jadeite has not been established, which gives an opportunity for a few unscrupulous operators in the industry to deceive customers, damages the economic interests of jade buyers and tarnishes the reputation of Pingzhou jade market. The above-mentioned reality has been far behind the needs of the development of the situation and has become a bottleneck for the further development and strengthening of the market.

The awarding ceremony of a series of activities on "March 15th" Consumer Rights Protection Day in Foshan City in 27

V. The Association wrote a letter to express its feelings and put forward a transformation plan

On November 3rd, 23, the leaders of Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association wrote a letter to the Pingzhou District Committee and District Office begging for the expansion and transformation of Jade Street as soon as possible. In 24, the responsible person of the sub-district office and Heping East Village Committee, after many considerations, decided to establish several jade bidding and trading venues first because of the shortage of funds and several easy-to-transform schemes. Now Myanmar's major and pivotal jade mining company has settled in Pingzhou. In addition, the "National Jewelry and Jade Quality Supervision and Inspection Center Pingzhou Technical Consultation Service Point" is also set up to protect consumers, put an end to the behavior of deceiving jewelry and jade customers, and rebuild the goodwill of Pingzhou jade. This move has attracted tourists from all over the world and jade products operators at home and abroad, and they can rest assured that they will come to buy Pingzhou jade in bulk. In addition, more and more operators from all over the industry have come to join in the business, forming a virtuous circle, and gradually reversing the unfavorable situation that most of Pingzhou jade articles are sold at low prices in wholesale in recent years, with high risks, little profit and vicious competition. The number of retail outlets with considerable profit margin has been increased, which has changed the embarrassing situation that the bids of peers in Pingzhou have been inferior to those in Yangmei, Hong Kong and Guangzhou for a long time when buying high-grade jade, and eliminated the complaints of local members about the prosperous work of the association.

On January 11th, 25, Nanhai District of Foshan City cancelled Guicheng Sub-district Office and Pingzhou Sub-district Office and merged them into Guicheng Sub-district Office. On January 23, 25, under the advice of Chairman Liang, the Party Working Committee and the office of Guicheng Street attached great importance to it and strongly supported it. The village committee of Pingdong seized the opportunity and took advantage of the situation to build eight jade bidding and trading venues, all of which were rented and operated by jade merchants from all over the country. Subsequently, the market expansion, grade improvement, dressing and wearing hats, landscaping and greening projects of Pingzhou Jade Old Street were started. Meiyu Square and Jade Square have been completed and opened successively, and the Central Square and Duntou Jade Square have been completed. Recently, a section of Kuangyi Road, 3 meters south of Tianshengqiaotou, was opened, and most of the two sides were used as jade shops, making the jade street a line, with a hole in the south. The first phase of road construction, market expansion, grade upgrading, greening and beautification of Jade Street in Pingzhou has been basically completed, and the old look has changed. As a result, the collective assets of Pingdong Village are constantly increasing, the rental income is greatly increased, and the income and welfare level of villagers are constantly improving.

A glimpse of Jade Square in Jade Street, Pingzhou

Central Square of Jade Street, Pingzhou

VI. Looking forward to the future, creating brilliance

Jade industry has achieved remarkable results in bringing prosperity to the tertiary industry and real estate industry, activating the local economy, generating local advertising effects and improving local visibility and reputation. Jade industry is not only a characteristic economic industry, but also a characteristic cultural industry. We must seize the opportunity to lay a solid hardware and software foundation for the great development of jade characteristic economic industry in the future.

(1) Building an Antique Jade City

At the end of p>27, Guicheng Sub-district Office started to build a jade city with an area of 2 mu, imitating the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties, and planned to increase more than 1, shops, plus 2 mu of green square and 1, square meters of modern exhibition hall. Long-term display of high-grade jadeite jade products, both wholesale and retail, regular auction, and at the same time hold a national jade industry development forum and jade culture forum, making it a never-ending jewelry and jade exhibition auction. The exhibition hall is located in the characteristic industrial base of jade, and all the products for auction are original products, and it is the first one in mainland China, with great attraction and strong vitality, and it is the new core driving force for the development of the characteristic economic industry of jade in Pingzhou. At the same time, through Kungang Road to Dongcun Avenue, the road traffic of Jade City and Convention and Exhibition Center will be revolutionized and improved in quality. Build a four-star hotel, integrating business and leisure, and complement each other with the convention and exhibition center. This is an important measure for Guicheng to implement the development idea of "small jade, big industry" and create the eighth business card of "Emerald Guicheng".

(II) Establishing Pingzhou Jade Carving Arts and Crafts School

Jewelry and jade industry is an ancient, vibrant and thriving sunrise industry among many industries in China. With the improvement of people's living standards, the market demand for jade and jade carving ornaments is increasing day by day, which brings huge development space for jade and jade carving ornaments industry, so there is an urgent demand for jade carving technicians.

Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association seized the first opportunity, vigorously introduced teachers to set up jade and jade carving schools, trained outstanding jade carving talents, and promoted Pingzhou jade industry to a higher level to achieve sustainable development; Improve the design and carving level of Pingzhou jade, increase the variety of colors and traditional cultural content, and promote the great development of characteristic economic industries with jade culture; Create an ideal employment platform for the unemployed youth, assume social responsibilities, and make the jade industry succeed. shine on you is better than Blue. Therefore, the establishment of Pingzhou Jade Carving Arts and Crafts School will play an irreplaceable role in the sustainable development of Pingzhou jade industry, the promotion of the long-standing Chinese jade culture, the restoration of the traditional cultural desert, and the construction of a strong cultural town and area.

In June, 27, Nanhai District Federation of Industry and Commerce Secretary's work exchange forum, Pingzhou Jewelry and Jade Association introduced work experience as an advanced unit

(3) Give full play to the advantages of Pingzhou jade industry

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