Since the first Cui Shi Gem Jewelry Manufacturing Co., Ltd. set up a factory in Wuzhou on 1982, Wuzhou's artificial products industry has become a characteristic advantage industry with rapid development and considerable scale. After more than 20 years of cultivation and support, it has become a characteristic and advantageous industry in our city. At present, Wuzhou has become a trading center for raw materials, machinery and equipment, processing accessories, sending and receiving of artificial products and jewelry of artificial products. There are more than 500 enterprises engaged in artificial products, accounting for about 80% of the national output and 70% of the world output, which is known as "the world's artificial products capital".

Build a solid trading platform for artificial products. Wuzhou City has successively built a Gem City and a Gem Building to build the largest artificial products trading center in Southeast Asia. The domestic market covers Guangxi, Guangdong, Sichuan, Yunnan, Hunan, Hubei, Shandong, Zhejiang, Fujian and other provinces, and the international market mainly faces Thailand, India, the United States, Italy, Mexico, Russia and other countries. The main trading partners are ASEAN countries such as Thailand. More than 400 gem enterprises in the city have established fixed contact with the jewelry market of ASEAN countries. In 2008, the Office of the Organizing Committee of Wuzhou International Gemstone Festival and Wuzhou Branch of China Mobile Communications Group jointly developed the online trading platform of Gemstone, which became an important carrier of internationalization and networking of Wuzhou man-made products industry.

Cultivate professional and technical personnel of artificial products. Wuzhou Gem Technical Training School, established in 2000, is the only secondary specialized school in China focusing on polishing, cutting, grinding, stone testing teaching and technology training. In 2006, Wuzhou University established the laboratory of artificial product design, R&D and testing, which was listed as the key laboratory of Guangxi universities and became the training base of industrial R&D and artificial products talents in Wuzhou. In 2008, Wuzhou Vocational College opened the specialty of gemstone identification and processing technology, and the cultivation of artificial products professionals reached a new level. At the same time, further study and improve the product specifications and product quality standard system of artificial products, formulate the quality inspection standards of Wuzhou artificial products, and actively declare national standards and international standards, so as to make Wuzhou artificial products industry embark on the road of "standardization" development.

The artificial products industry has effectively promoted the development of local economy. At present, there are 65.438+200,000 employees engaged in cutting, polishing, inlaying and marketing of artificial products, with an annual output value of about 2.5 billion yuan. There are a number of well-known enterprises such as Xu Ping Jewelry, Wangfa New Technology and Jingwei Gem Manufacturing. With the acceleration of the construction of Wuzhou regional hub city, Xijiang golden waterway center city and demonstration base for undertaking industrial transfer, Wuzhou artificial products industry will surely develop faster and better.