October 21, 2001 (September 5, 2001 in the lunar calendar) was the first China (Jieyang) International Jade Festival. "Asian Jade Capital-Jieyang" won the "Hundred Flowers Award" of China Jade and "Asian Jade Capital-Jieyang" was unveiled. The reporter learned exciting news: China's "Hundred Flowers Award for Jewelry, Jewelry, and Jade", which has been suspended for ten years, is back on stage and will resume selection at this jade festival. With the unveiling of "Asian Jade Capital-Jieyang", Jieyang will become a concentration of jade identification, testing, selection and jade professional talents in China, and Jieyang will be expected to become the "standard setter" for jade products across the country. The selection of the "Hundred Flowers Award" for China jade articles that has been suspended for ten years has reappeared According to Fang Zhenyuan, deputy director of the Organizing Committee of the 4th (China Jieyang) International Jade Festival and director of the Dongshan District Management Committee of Jieyang City, the selection activity of the "Hundred Flowers Award" for China jade articles held during the Jade Festival will attract widespread attention from the jade industry at home and abroad. Currently, more than 250 pieces of jade ornaments and pendants have been registered to participate in the selection. This event is the highest competition in the domestic jade industry and the biggest highlight of this jade festival. China's "Hundred Flowers Award for Jewelry, Jewelry, and Jade" selection event has been suspended for ten years. In the past decade or so, a large number of masterpieces of jewelry and jade articles have emerged all over the country, especially Yangmei jade articles, and some of them can be included in the treasure house of my country's gem and jade culture and art. In order to further promote and promote the innovation and development of my country's jewelry, jade industry, it has been decided by relevant national authoritative departments to resume the selection event of China's "Jewelry, Jewelry, and Jade Hundred Flowers Awards" starting this year. The dazzling and dazzling jade products bring together the beauty of the sun, which will allow citizens to experience the long, splendid, extensive and profound jade culture up close and appreciate the charming style of jade products. Cluster development of Yangmei jade industry Yangmei Village has numerous jade production and processing enterprises, scattered in every corner of the village. An industrial cluster has been formed, showing a prosperous and good development scene. With a large market scale and standardized management, Yangmei has established its leading position as the highest, largest and most concentrated high-end jade production, processing base and trade distribution center in the country and even in Asia. It is understood that Jieyang City attaches great importance to the development of Yangmei jade industry. After more than ten years of careful planning and taking advantage of the situation, it has formed a good development pattern. Qiaoxi, Qiaodong, and Qiaonan and Guqiao villages adjacent to Yangmei Village have taken the lead in developing the jade industry, relying on their geographical location and the traditional advantages of some villagers in jade production, processing and trade. On the basis of the development of the jade and jade industry, white jade blanks were purchased from Russia, Xinjiang, Qinghai, Liaoning, Henan and other places, and various white jade products were made for sale, with an increasing scale. Jade cuts out 10 billion yuan a year, accounting for 20% of the country's total output value of the same industry! With this achievement, Jieyang City, the ancient city of eastern Guangdong, has won the title of "Jade Capital of China". The reporter recently learned from Jieyang City that the China Light Industry Federation has approved the award of the honorary title of "China Jade Capital" to Jieyang City. Seventy percent of Burmese jade is sold to Yangmei. Jieyang City is located in the eastern part of Guangdong Province and the central part of Chaoshan Plain. It is a famous historical and cultural city in Guangdong Province. The jade industry has a long history of development and has a history of more than 100 years. According to reports, the jade industry in Jieyang City is mainly concentrated in Dongshan District, of which Yangmei Village is the most famous. According to reports, Yangmei villagers began to develop jade processing industry since the late Qing Dynasty. A small number of farmers engaged in small jade trading and processed old jade to earn wages during their spare time. After the reform and opening up, the jade processing and management industry has developed vigorously, and a group of professional and technical talents such as jade picking, jade sawing, jade carving, jade appreciating, jade tasting, and marketers have emerged locally. According to incomplete statistics, 70% of the medium and high-end jade produced in Myanmar flows to Yangmei every year. At present, there are more than 700 households in the village with more than 3000 people, and 95% of the villagers are engaged in the design, processing, production and marketing of jade. "Uncanny craftsmanship" turns decadence into magical beauty and does not produce jade. How can it become a well-known "Jade Capital"? Locals believe that Yangmei's success lies in its openness in technology and operations. As the saying goes: "Jade cannot be made until it is cut." Lin Chaoming, a craftsman known locally as "Jade Doctor", has a deep understanding of this. A piece of "waste" jade with random patterns with a cross-section only the size of a finger and a length of about one meter was only more than 800,000 yuan when purchased, but after processing, the price can reach tens of millions of yuan! Lin Chaoming told reporters a story about jade medicine's "turning stone into gold". Once a jade merchant purchased a piece of jade material. The whole dark green jade material was noble and dignified in color. The fly in the ointment was that there were many linear black flaws on the jade material, which greatly reduced the value of the jade material. "Such jade material may only be disposed of as waste jade in Hong Kong." Master Lin said. However, in Yangmei Village, jade merchants publicly displayed this waste jade material so that local "jade doctors" could come up with ideas. The final plan was to cut the jade material short and carve it into a "dragon pillar", and the "black lines" were eliminated from the carving of the pattern. Indeed, the jade craftsman sawed the jade material into more than 10 sections and carved it into an exquisite dragon soaring pattern. The "black lines" were also eradicated completely. Each section of the "Coiling Dragon Pillar" was worth nearly one million yuan. Locals say that Yangmei's jade carving master does not rely on confidentiality, but relies on hard work to make money. According to the local government, there are currently 5978 jade production, processing and trading enterprises in Jieyang City, employing 135,000 people. In 2004, the total output value of the jewelry and jade industry was 10.72 billion yuan, accounting for about 20% of the country's total industrial output value of the same industry, and foreign exchange earned by exports was US$245.85 million. Photos of previous squares October 21, 2007 The 6th China (Jieyang) International Jade Festival October 21, 2008 The 7th China (Jieyang) International Jade Festival October 21, 2009 The 8th China (Jieyang) International Jade Festival