Growth enterprise market is a very important industry in the world market. Especially in the past 20 years, it has developed rapidly. According to relevant statistics, the annual output value of gemstones in the world was more than 200 million US dollars in the late 1950s, 654.38 billion US dollars in the 1960s, 25 billion US dollars in the mid-1970s, 65.438+97.8 billion US dollars and 78 billion US dollars in the year of 65.438+988. Many countries use the export and processing of gem raw materials to earn a lot of foreign exchange. For example, Botswana's per capita income before 1965 was only $35, making it one of the poorest countries in the world. Later, due to a major breakthrough in diamond geological work, its average annual income was $65,438+0,680, and its sales accounted for 80% of the national economic output value, thus ranking among the top in the world.

In the early 1980s, the annual sales of China's jewelry industry was less than 200 million yuan, and the foreign exchange earned by export was more than $160,000. By 2000, the sales volume had reached 88 billion yuan, an increase of more than 400 times, and the export volume reached 2.6 billion US dollars, an increase of 654.38+060 times. Among them, platinum jewelry sales are second only to Japan, ranking second in the world; The sales volume of gold jewelry is the third in the world and the first in Asia; Diamond jewelry ranks eighth in the world. With the rapid development of jewelry industry, great changes have taken place in the employees and market scale in China. According to incomplete statistics, in 1982, the number of designated jewelry production enterprises in China increased from less than 100 to more than 500, and the number of jewelry production enterprises increased from 368 to more than 4,000. There are more than 20,000 jewelry retail enterprises in China, the number of employees has increased from 30,000 to 800,000, and the gold sales have increased from 0.7 tons to more than 200 tons, ranking third in the world and first in Asia. Jewelry industry plays a very important role in China's national economy, especially in the late 1990s. Due to the changes in the world economic structure and the outbreak of the Asian financial crisis, many countries and regions in Asia have been affected, and the development of China's foreign trade and economic cooperation has been significantly affected. Even in Zhenping, Nanyang, the weakness of the jewelry market can also feel this impact.

In such a harsh external economic environment, the general trend of China's jewelry industry is to develop steadily year by year. See table 12- 1 for the jewelry sales in China in the 1990s.

Table12-1Statistics of Chinese Jewelry Sales in 1990s

After nearly 20 years of development, the jewelry industry has formed some professional markets and distribution centers with characteristics and a certain scale. Jade border trade markets in Ruili and Tengchong, Yunnan; Guangdong Jieyang Yangmei Emerald Market; Pearl market in Zhuji, Zhejiang; Henan Zhenping Jade Carving Market; The crystal market in Donghai, Jiangsu Province and some jewelry wholesale markets around the country have gradually matured the development of China's jewelry industry.