Where do you make jade carvings in China?

China's largest jewelry and jade carving processing and trading center.

Yunnan has been the distribution center, processing place, sales place and trade channel of jewelry and jade since ancient times. In this passage, Ruili has long been in the position of "bridgehead" and is favored by the jewelry industry. Now it has developed into one of the largest centers for carving, processing and trading jewelry and jade in China. There are more than 5,000 jewelry business households in the city, employing more than 35,000 people, and the output value of the jewelry industry exceeds 3 billion yuan, making it a veritable "Oriental Jewelry City", which has been successively rated as "China Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Characteristic Industrial Base" and "Yunnan Cultural Industry Characteristic City".

Guangdong sihui

The largest jadeite processing base in China

Located in Sihui City, a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhaoqing City, Guangdong Province. Today, sihui jade Street consists of Jade Street, Jade City, Skylight Market and Sihui International. Merchants engaged in jade trading here mainly come from Sihui, Henan and Fujian. Jade Street and Jade City sell all kinds of jade, including bracelets, pendants, ornaments and egg noodles. There are many ornaments in Sihui, and even a decorative city has been set up in Jade City.

The skylight market is a very famous feature of sihui jade City. Every day, just before dawn, even from 3 o'clock to 4 o'clock, jade merchants from far and near began to gather here, lighting small lights to see the goods transactions in the dim light. As soon as the sun came out, it began to disperse gradually, so it was called the skylight market.

Most of the goods traded here are woolen goods-that is, they have not been artificially polished, and most of them are jade carving craftsmen nearby or their families. Generally speaking, the jadeite products sold by Sihui are considered to be lower in grade than the other three markets. Because many of them are handmade by apprentices, even if you do odd jobs, you can find jadeite for even a few dollars here, but there are also some fine products.

Guangdong Pingzhou

China's largest jade market and China's largest Myanmar jade distribution center.

Pingzhou Jade Street is well-known in the industry, ranking first in the country in terms of production and sales volume, ranking first in the four major jade markets in the country, and is famous for processing jade A goods with bare jade. Handstring is the biggest feature of Pingzhou. Jade Street in Pingzhou is mainly composed of Jade Street, Jade Building and Cuibao Garden. Because the Pingzhou market is relatively large, merchants from all over the world gather here, including those who used to do jade trading in Sihui, Guangzhou and Jieyang, and it is possible to set up distribution points here.

Jinan, Fuzhou

Shoushan Stone in China is the hometown of folk art.

In recent years, Shoushan stone carving industry has further developed on the original basis, and the prosperity of Shoushan stone production, purchase and sales has become more prominent. According to statistics, the number of people engaged in Shoushan stone carving industry in Jin 'an District alone has increased to more than 50,000, and the annual output value of stone carving can reach more than 654.38 billion yuan. The characteristic industrial base of Shoushan stone in Jin 'an District of Fuzhou has been fully formed, which has become another new growth point of local economic development.

Zhejiang Qingtian

China Qingtianshi production and trade base

Qingtian stone is warm, soft and suitable, with rich colors and strange patterns. It is not only the best printing material in seal cutting, but also the ideal stone for stone carving. After carving and building by generations of skilled craftsmen, Qingtian stone carving, a traditional arts and crafts product with a long history and a good reputation at home and abroad, has been formed. At present, there are more than 30,000 employees in Qingtian stone carving industry, and there are more than 100 artists with middle and senior titles. Their works are exported to more than 50 countries and regions, forming a stone carving industry that enjoys a good reputation at home and abroad.

Liaoning Fuxin

China Manao Capital

Fuxin, located in western Liaoning, is the main agate producing area, processing area and agate product distribution center in China. Agate is rich in resources, accounting for more than 50% of the national reserves, with excellent quality. Fuxin has a profound agate culture. Scrapers made of agate, jade and stone tools were unearthed at the Chahai site 7600 years ago, indicating that Chahai people were the first people in the world to know and use agate.

Fuxin agate processing has a long history. Since Liao Dynasty, Fuxin people began to collect, excavate and process agate. By the Qing Dynasty, Fuxin's agate industry had developed to a certain scale, and Fuxin agate became a palace tribute. At present, Fuxin agate art has formed seven series, more than 200 varieties and thousands of styles, among which "elegance" with "cleverness, beauty, strangeness and novelty" as the typical artistic characteristics is more prominent.

In recent years, the operating income of agate industry in Fuxin has increased by more than 30% every year, with more than 30,000 employees. Two major sales markets, represented by Shijiazi Agate Wholesale Market in Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County and Fuxin Agate Gem City Boutique Market, have initially formed.

Zhenping, Henan

China is the hometown of jade carving.

Legend has it that Zhenping jade carving began in the Han Dynasty. Zhenping jade carving is famous for its exquisite carving and novel shape. The main raw materials used are Nanyang dushan jade, Hetian jade and Xiuyu jade.

1995, zhenping county was named "the hometown of jade carving in China" by the state;

In 2008, Zhenping jade carving was announced by the State Council as a national intangible cultural heritage list;

20 10 Zhenping jade carving won the title of "China Emerging City Business Card" and "China Cultural and Creative Award".

At present, the professional market represented by the Jade Carving Bay in Zhenping Stone Buddha Temple and the International Jade City has taken shape, and its products sell well in more than 50 countries and regions around the world, becoming the largest distribution center for jade carving products in China.