A jade bracelet 200,000: why the price of jade rose

Liu Ping, head of the Qingdao Bureau of Quality Supervision Supervision and Inspection Station, predicted roughly that the number of stores selling jade in Qingdao is now at least 100, and there are dozens of Hetian jade. Liu Ping believes that there are not many types of jade on the market, and that jade has become the focus in recent years, and prices will inevitably skyrocket.

"How much did gold rise? There are too many differences from jade!" The reporter interviewed Qingdao jade investors. In recent years, jade has gone from the small minority consumer to the mass market. The prices of various jade raw materials have risen dramatically. Some valuable jades have become the status symbol of famous cars and watches. Take Jadeite as an example. According to the data from the China Jewellery and Jade Jewelry Industry Association, from 2000 to 2010, the average price of jadeite rose about 20% per year. However, in the past two years, the price has doubled. Before 2003, Hetian jade was denominated in kilograms, after which he traded in grams. In the past 30 years, the price of top-quality Hetian jade seeds soared thousands of times.

Is jade investment really magic? Can ten-, hundred-, and even thousand-fold bonuses be earned by the average consumer? The reporter recently launched an investigation.

Stores from several families to hundreds of jade jade prices, the industry statistics data may be abstract, in fact, walk in the Qingdao market, there will be such an experience.

“When we entered the Qingdao market six years ago, apart from the shopping mall counters, we opened three or four unique jade stores.” Hou Yanhui, the general manager of Qingdao Colorful Yunnan Jade’s flagship store in Qingdao, recalled the entrepreneurial experience of the year and still had some feelings of emotion. There are fewer emeralds in Qingdao, and fewer consumers consider emerald, so business is hard to do.

In the past few years, with the increase in awareness of jadeite jade, the consumption demand of jade wares has been magnified, and the number of Jade Shops in Daocheng City has soared. Liu Ping, head of the Qingdao Bureau of Quality Supervision Supervision and Inspection Station, predicted roughly that the number of stores selling jade in Qingdao is now at least 100, and there are dozens of Hetian jade.

Reporters on the ground interviews also felt the prosperity of the jade market. In Jimo Road Market, there are dozens of large and small jade shops. Surprisingly, this market also has high-priced and even high-priced jade.

In a jade shop on Jimo Road, the reporter saw prices of various jade jewelry and pendants ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands. The reporter said that he did not expect Jimo Road to be so expensive. Mr. Jiang, the manager, said: “Now which shop is also on Million yuan of jade, jade prices are now so powerful, two or three thousand dollars in the previous two years, the bracelet must now be tens of thousands.

“Good jade is generally not placed on the surface.” Ms. Hu, a senior jade consumer, told reporters that those who are looking for jade will not buy it for the first time, but they will go back and forth many times and find it everywhere. Talk about it, and the store is familiar. This time, the store will take out the boutique. She told reporters that last year she went to Jimo to buy jade bracelets and did not find a suitable one. Later, a shop owner specially transferred goods from the south according to their needs. The three bracelets were priced at 1.2 million each, and finally three were sold for a total of 600,000 yuan. Even if the price is down, the average is only 200,000 yuan.

“This is the case with the jade market. There are several hundred yuan in colorful Yunnan, and there are hundreds of thousands of things in Jimo. There are good ones, and the key is how you pick.” Liu Ping said that the brand jade jewelry stores frequently display tens of millions of products. The humble shop also has more than 100,000 and hundreds of thousands of products.

Is jade so expensive?

Jade is so up-and-running that the industry is divided. The mainstream argument is that the scarcity of jade raw materials has caused prices to soar.

According to industry insiders, more than 90% of the world's emeralds are produced in Myanmar, and the accelerating rate of exploitation in recent years has dried up raw materials such as jadeite. Jadeite is a non-renewable resource product, and the scarcity of raw materials directly causes price rises.

The same is true of Hetian jade. Chu Hanming, chairman of Qingdao Chuyuge Jewelry Co., Ltd., said that the Hetian jade seed material in Xinjiang has been basically mined, and now only mountain materials can be developed, but even mountain materials are mined less. As a result, Russian materials and Korean materials also flock to the market. In his opinion, in the final analysis, the increase in demand and the decrease in supply have caused prices to soar. Chu Hanming, who has been managing jade for many years, said that not only the wealthy people have increased their consumption of jade, but people now including Europe and the United States like jade.

Liu Ping believes that there are not many types of jade on the market, and that jade has become the focus in recent years, and prices will inevitably skyrocket. Liu Ping, who has many years of experience in the identification of gemstones, has witnessed the development of the Qingdao market. He explained that the Qingdao Baoyu Stone Market started in 1992. At the time, businesses selling low-grade red sapphire began on Changle Road. Although the quality was poor, they also led a consumption boom. In 1997, diamonds began to enter the island city, and they immediately swept the market and heated up so far. After 2002, Jadeite began to appear in the Qingdao market. After 10 years of cultivation, it has become the most popular gemstone product. Hetian Yu entered Qingdao almost in 2005 and became more sought after in 2008. In recent years, grapevine, tanzanite, emerald, and high-quality red sapphires have entered the market one after another. "Now the hot spots for consumption are on jade, of course, prices will push up." Liu Ping believes that with the diversification of consumer products in the future, what people like to have, what to buy, thousands of times the price of skyrocketing myths Will not be more common.

During the interview, some people said that the country increased import tariffs on jades last year, and the machining costs and processing costs of the jade industry have risen more than before. This has also contributed to the increase in jade prices to a certain extent. However, these factors obviously have little to do with the doubling of jade prices. Mr. Chiang, an industry insider, said that the surge in jade prices is not unrelated to the accumulation of large households. On the market, many large merchants have accumulated a large amount of jade materials for more than 10 years, and they have formed a tacit understanding. They only put a little bit of material into the market every year, which causes a very shortage of raw materials.