Artificial Gem Industry

  Artificial gem variety, style, beautiful, with theoperation is lagging behind other issues. Many
huge price advantage, well received by theoperators are from grinding stones started a
consumers. Starting in 2008 an outbreak of thesmall workshop, based on continuity of operation
global financial crisis, to the artificial gem industryand passively do some incoming, sample, to a
has brought great impact. In the global financialsingle processing, sending and receiving and so on.
crisis has not yet happened in the past, China'sWuzhou Artificial gem dealers in the proportion of
artificial gem industry to realize leap-forwardtruly autonomous is not high, many rely on a
development faced a number of bottlenecks.higher level of large distributors scattered down
Challenge: development of the industry highlightsthe processing and acquisition business, which
the bottleneckmeans that distributors of the artificial gems
     Guangxi Wuzhou City is the industrialWuzhou the ultimate market is basically not grasp.
center of China's artificial gemstones. From simple    The industry believes that many dealers
processing to set up raw material plant gems,are used to produce and sell a simple continuation
precious stones machinery factory, from rawof waiting for customers and orders come to
materials, machinery and basically depend onmeet the family practiced on a cottage and sales,
imports to domestic production, from orderwhich the status quo if it is not enough attention
production to international trade, after 27 yearsand be improved, will threaten the Wuzhou, as an
of development, Wuzhou City has become theartificial gemstone trading center.
world's largest man-made gem processing    The third is an extension of industrial chain
concentrated base. According to statistics,conditions are not ripe. Wuzhou City, the
Wuzhou City, the country's total output of theproduction of artificial gems, although the large,
artificial gems for 80%, accounting for 70% ofbut the price low, low share of roughing the
world production, and therefore known aslargest number of enterprises, high value-added,
"artificial gem capital of the world." But the globalbrand enterprises with less, the industry has yet
financial crisis swept across the city of Wuzhou ofto form a highly efficient supply chain, gathering
artificial gems industry, highlighting the bottleneck,the gathering area effect is not significant.
the industry faces unprecedented challenges and    Analysis of the industry, after years of
pressures.attempts, Wuzhou City, an extension of the
    First, the relocation of processing center.conditions of artificial gems is far from mature
Industry analysis, Wuzhou of artificial gemsindustry chain. On the one hand, the domestic
industry has experienced 20 years ofjewelry enterprises are concentrated in the Pearl
development history, with the passage of timeRiver mounted downstream Dongguan, Shenzhen,
and changes in the external environment, artificialPanyu and other places, it is difficult not
gem production industry has shown a "heated"transferred to the foundations of deep processing
competition situation. On the one hand, the lowerof Wuzhou City. On the other hand, due to
the price of an artificial gems dropping lower andrestricted venture capital scarcity, combined with
lower; the other hand, labor costs, rising electricitythe lack of mosaic and so professional and
bills, resulting in advantages of artificial gemtechnical personnel, as well as related ancillary
industry dwindle. Coupled with a low entryservices are inadequate and so the impact of a
threshold, practitioners promote the flow of thenumber of precious stones Wuzhou deep
population with low-grade artificial gem processingprocessing enterprise development difficult.
industry, the corresponding spread. Coupled with    Fourth, the financial crisis brought about
the basic phenomenon of apparent loss of labornew challenges. Wuzhou City Chamber of
resources, the personnel engaged in gem polishingCommerce executive vice president of Gem
fewer and fewer, artificial gem processing centerLiang Su Jia said that the financial crisis erupted
challenges.last year, but also to the gemstone industry, an
    Wuzhou Mountain butterfly Industrialenormous impact. The second half of last year,
Development Authority YU gem that in recentexport-oriented nature of the artificial gems
years, artificial gem processing center from theindustry, being implicated, the most obvious
subordinates in Wuzhou city to county, township,manifestation is the sharp reduction in export
villages spread layer by layer. At the same time,orders. Unbearable pressure on the operators of
because with more suitable soil for thesome low-cost sellers, and some even turned to
development of artificial gem industry, fast-trackdevelopment of gemstone market withdrawal of
the northwest Guangxi and Hunan, Sichuan andother industries. So far, about three percent of
some other parts of rural spread.people have quit the industry gem. Even more
    Second is the trading center were affected.serious is that the market does not regulate the
Trade associations in the Gem City dealersprice confusion, credit transactions, triggered by
Investigation found that the prevalence ofunfair competition has affected the healthy
Wuzhou dealers operate small-scale mode ofdevelopment of artificial gemstone market.