Shangtang is located in dongqiao town, Xiuyu District, Putian City, 24 kilometers away from downtown Putian. The neighboring village has a tradition of gold and silver processing since ancient times, and now it is one of the important gold and silver jewelry processing and trade centers in China. Among them, there are more than 3,000 people in Shangtang Village alone. They used to go out to engage in gold and silver jewelry processing trade for a living. At the end of 1990s, they gradually returned to their hometowns to invest and start businesses, which led to the gathering of colleagues from all over the country and formed the famous Shangtang Gold, Silver and Jewelry Street inside and outside the province. In recent years, with the great attention and strong support of the district party committee and the district government, Xiuyu silver jewelry industry has developed very rapidly, forming a concentration area of craft production such as Shangtang, Vu Thang and Hou Wen. In particular, Shangtang Village tried to build an industrial processing zone on hundreds of acres of abandoned salt fields, implemented the "private capital return" project, and concentrated on the development of gold and silver jewelry processing trade. The sales and market share of its products are constantly expanding, and it has fixed sales outlets in many big cities and tourist attractions in China. Some products have been exported to more than 20 countries and regions such as Europe, the United States, Japan, Hongkong, Australia, Taiwan Province and Southeast Asia. The original planned area of Shangtang Jewelry City is 330 mu, with an accumulated investment of more than 200 million yuan and a construction area of 65,438+10,000 square meters. There are more than 200 processing owners and wholesalers, among which enterprises above designated size include Yiyi, Lexus, Yixing, Xuefeng and Shifen. It involves more than 30,000 varieties of gold, silver, copper, jade and precious stones/kloc-0, and promotes the development, production, wholesale and retail of jewelry boxes, processing tools and molds. There are more than 50 thousand people who have business dealings with all parts of the country, with an annual transaction volume of more than 3 billion yuan. Daily trading of gold and platinum exceeds15 kg; More than 2,500 kilograms of silver; Jewelry products cost more than 2.5 million yuan, which is one of the important gold, silver and jewelry industrial bases in China. More than 200 enterprises have set up sales windows or offices in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Yiwu, Qingdao, Wuzhou and other large and medium-sized cities, becoming one of the main supply bases of silver ornaments in China.