China Artificial Stone Industry

Artificial gem variety, style, beautiful, with theoperators are from grinding stones started a
huge price advantage, well received by thesmall workshop, based on continuity of operation
consumers. Starting in 2008 an outbreak of theand passively do some incoming, sample, to a
global financial crisis, to the artificial gem industrysingle processing, sending and receiving and so on.
has brought great impact. In the global financialWuzhou Artificial gem dealers in the proportion of
crisis has not yet happened in the past, China'struly autonomous is not high, many rely on a
artificial gem industry to realize leap forwardhigher level of large distributors scattered down
development faced a number of bottlenecks.the processing and acquisition business, which
Challenges: development of the industry highlightsmeans that distributors of the artificial gems
the bottleneckWuzhou the ultimate market is basically not grasp.
Guangxi Wuzhou City is the industrial center ofThe industry believes that many dealers are used
China's artificial gemstones. From simple processingto produce and sell a simple continuation of waiting
to set up raw material plant gems, preciousfor customers and orders come to meet the
stones machinery factory, from raw materials,family practiced on a cottage and sales, which the
machinery and basically depend on imports tostatus quo if it is not enough attention and be
domestic production, from order production toimproved, will threaten the Wuzhou, as an artificial
international trade, after 27 years ofgemstone trading center.
development, Wuzhou City has become theThe third is an extension of industrial chain
world's largest man made gem processingconditions are not ripe. Wuzhou City, the
concentrated base. According to statistics,production of artificial gems, although the large,
Wuzhou City, the country's total output of thebut the price low, low share of roughing the
artificial gems for 80%, accounting for 70% oflargest number of enterprises, high value added,
world production, and therefore known asbrand enterprises with less, the industry has yet
"artificial gem capital of the world." But the globalto form a highly efficient supply chain, gathering
financial crisis swept across the city of Wuzhou ofthe gathering area effect is not significant.
artificial gems industry, highlighting the bottleneck,Analysis of the industry, after years of attempts,
the industry faces unprecedented challenges andWuzhou City, an extension of the conditions of
pressures.artificial gems is far from mature industry chain.
First, the relocation of processing center. IndustryOn the one hand, the domestic jewelry
analysis, Wuzhou of artificial gems industry hasenterprises are concentrated in the Pearl River
experienced 20 years of development history,mounted downstream Dongguan, Shenzhen,
with the passage of time and changes in thePanyu and other places, it is difficult not
external environment, artificial gem productiontransferred to the foundations of deep processing
industry has shown a "heated" competitionof Wuzhou City. On the other hand, due to
situation. On the one hand, the lower the price ofrestricted venture capital scarcity, combined with
an artificial gems dropping lower and lower; thethe lack of mosaic and so professional and
other hand, labor costs, rising electricity bills,technical personnel, as well as related ancillary
resulting in advantages of artificial gem industryservices are inadequate and so the impact of a
dwindle. Coupled with a low entry threshold,number of precious stones Wuzhou deep
practitioners promote the flow of the populationprocessing enterprise development difficult.
with low grade artificial gem processing industry,Fourth, the financial crisis brought about new
the corresponding spread. Coupled with the basicchallenges. Wuzhou City Chamber of Commerce
phenomenon of apparent loss of labor resources,executive vice president of Gem Liang Su Jia said
the personnel engaged in gem polishing fewer andthat the financial crisis erupted last year, but also
fewer, artificial gem processing center challenges.to the gemstone industry, an enormous impact.
Wuzhou Mountain butterfly Industrial DevelopmentThe second half of last year, export oriented
Authority YU gem that in recent years, artificialnature of the artificial gems industry, being
gem processing center from the subordinates inimplicated, the most obvious manifestation is the
Wuzhou city to county, township, villages spreadsharp reduction in export orders. Unbearable
layer by layer. At the same time, because withpressure on the operators of some low cost
more suitable soil for the development of artificialsellers, and some even turned to development of
gem industry, fast track the northwest Guangxigemstone market withdrawal of other industries.
and Hunan, Sichuan and some other parts of ruralSo far, about three percent of people have quit
spread.the industry gem. Even more serious is that the
Second is the trading center were affected.market does not regulate the price confusion,
Trade associations in the Gem City dealerscredit transactions, triggered by unfair competition
Investigation found that the prevalence ofhas affected the healthy development of artificial
Wuzhou dealers operate small scale mode ofgemstone market.
operation is lagging behind other issues. Many