Yunfu force to build national stone trading center

According to the briefing, the 13th China (Yunfu) International Stone Technology Exhibition and the 7th China (Yunfu) Stone Culture Festival will be held on October 18 in China Yunfu International Stone Industry City and Yunfu International Stone Expo Center. During the period, will also be held in 2016 Yunfu Daxiguan construction economic and trade activities. Yunfu Mayor Wang Sheng at a news conference made the above statement.
Wang Sheng said, Yunfu Stone after 400 years of development, has become an important link Yunfu contact the world, has won the "China Stone Center", "China Stone Circulation demonstration base", "China Artificial Stone", "Chinese folk culture Art (stone) town "and so on. At present, Yunfu Stone has grown to more than 4,000 enterprises, stone machinery more than 150 enterprises, employing 150,000 people. Last year the city's stone output value of more than 30 billion yuan, the first three quarters of this year is expected to grow 18%.
Wang Sheng frankly, Yunfu stone industry, there is still a lack of large-scale backbone enterprises, the lack of well-known brands, as well as the main processing and smiling curve at both ends of the R & D design and sales capacity is relatively weak and so on. Yunfu official will rely on innovation, to promote the transformation and upgrading of stone industry, cultivate large-scale backbone enterprises, large stone enterprises "indomitable spirit" to promote small and medium-sized stone enterprises "overwhelming."
Wang Sheng said that Yunfu will be based on the construction of state-level stone testing center to ensure that Yunfu stone of high quality; the construction of state-level stone price release center, Yunfu Stone Price Index become the most representative and influential stone price index; On the construction of national stone large data center, Yunfu will become a national stone trading center.
According to Jin Shenghong, vice mayor of Yunfu City, the current stone exhibition and stone culture festival total exhibition area of ​​60,000 square meters, of which Shi Zhanhui exhibition area of ​​48,000 square meters, Stone Culture Festival exhibition area of ​​12,000 square meters; The total number of 992 booths, 618 exhibitors (of which 53 foreign enterprises), from Turkey, Italy, Pakistan, more than 20 countries and China Hong Kong, Fujian, Shandong and other places.
The current stone exhibition and stone culture festival by the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, the China International Trade Promotion Committee, China Stone Association as a support unit, Yunfu Municipal People's Government, Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture, China International Trade Promotion Committee of Guangdong Provincial Committee. (Finish)