China's stone industry maintains rapid growth for eight consecutive years
China's stone industry maintains rapid growth for eight consecutive years
China's stone industry maintains rapid growth for eight consecutive years
Leader: global stone industry focus has shifted
As one of the global sunrise industry, stone industry developed very rapidly in recent years. The global stone production and trade grow annually with a rate of 7.3% and 9.2% since 1990, whose pace of development of the industry as a whole is significantly faster than other industries. Some experts predict that the global stone industry's annual output value will exceed $ 300 billion in 2015.
Globalization has promoted the development of China's stone industry. As one of the world's stone industry, China, starting in 2005, makes a comprehensive progress beyond traditional stone powerhouse Italy and Spain, to become the world's largest stone production, consumption and export country. Now, many customers purchasing stone from Italy, Turkey, Brazil and other countries in the international community have turned to China, so China Stone increase its share of the international stone market.
Market: stone is widely used
Stone as a product of building material product, accounts for a sizeable proportion in the output value of the global building materials, and this proportion will continue to expand in the next 10 years to 15 years.
According to insiders, as a typical mineral resource, the stone separates into the China marble, granite, sandstone, and other categories. There are thousands of varieties, due to the characters of scarcity, environmental protection, purely natural, high-quality, which has been the global preferred timber around the large-scale public construction projects, high-end building, and home improvement.
Demand: stone industry is unprecedented popular
The statistics show that, in recent years, the foreign trade of China's stone industry has maintained a high growth trend. Yunfu, Guangdong, Nan'an, Fujian, as two stone export bases in China, has accounted for more than 15% of the global the stone trade volume. With the intensification of the European debt crisis, stone consumption in Europe and the United States and other developed countries will become more dependent on the Chinese stone.
Some experts pointed out that the stone products in China occupied a pivotal position in the international market. A large number of mosaic tile suppliers in Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany, the Netherlands are dependent on China; stone traditional consumption in France, Britain, Italy, Spain and the Middle East, Southeast Asia and other regions, has reached a considerable share of Chinese stone proportion and steadily increased.
At present, the urban construction is surging demand for stone products besides it is too high. Quite a long period of time, the overall trend of the size of the investment and construction of cities will be expanded and will continue to accelerate the process of urbanization. Urban infrastructure construction, residential construction, investment in fixed assets will push a huge demand of building stone products and it also brings unprecedented opportunities for the development of China's stone industry.
It is understood that the sales of stone in the home improvement market in China is about 400 million square meters, while, artificial sone, as the alternative products of the stone products, its sales amount reached ￥300 billion, so there is a huge market space. Today, the domestic part of the stone business is fully involved in the home improvement market, through product standardization, standardization, and experiential marketing, to share the huge market cake.