Rich resources, Yunnan stone industry will usher in the golden period

Yunnan Province boasts abundant building stone reserves, and its marble is the most advantageous stone resource. At present, there are more than 200 mineral deposits (points), more than 100 varieties of 7 colors including red, white, black, and yellow. Outside Xishuangbanna, the rest of the cities are distributed. Ordinary building materials are mainly used for pavement decoration, paving, and water conservancy projects. At present, 374 ore deposits have been discovered, and most of the province is distributed.

In addition to superior resource advantages, Yunnan also has a unique geographical advantage. It borders the PRD and the Yangtze River Delta economic circle in the east, Hanoi, Bangkok, Singapore and Yangon in the south, and passes through Burma to Chittagong in Bangladesh via the west, and passes through the Sichuan hinterland in the north. The above-mentioned many advantages have created good development opportunities for the construction stone industry in Yunnan.

In the primary stage of the stone industry, due to restrictions on talents and production technology, most of the products of building stone production enterprises in Yunnan are still in the primary processing stage, and very few high-end products can be put on the market.

“Cultivating a professional construction stone finishing technician takes at least five years.” Wang Jincheng, head of sales business at Kunming Zhongcheng Saitama Stone Co., Ltd., said that almost all of his company’s engineers and skilled professional workers are outsiders. In order to retain these technical talents, the company can only adopt ways to increase treatment.

“Yunnan's architectural decoration and stone resources rank the top five in the country, but due to a variety of reasons and insufficient market influence, Yunnan's local market also has a lack of confidence in the stone produced in Yunnan,” said a person in charge of a stone company. Stones in the province are basically sold outside the province in the form of raw materials. In the face of the huge market demand in the province, stone enterprises in the province with insufficient processing capacity can only express their grievances. “It can be said that a large part of the finely processed stone used for building decoration in Yunnan each year is imported from outside the province. This market has unlimited potential, but the enterprises in the province are not able to grasp it properly.”

Liu Baihua, chairman of the Kunming Ecological Building Materials Industrial Park, has been in contact with the building stone industry for 15 years. After years of hard work, his company has achieved some achievements in brand building, but it is still relatively weak compared with well-known stone enterprises outside the province. The reason, he believes, is that due to the lack of a complete industrial chain, it has restricted the development of Yunnan building stone industry. “For example, accessory products such as waterproof glue used for surface cleaning and processing of stone materials are rarely found in the Yunnan market. If primary products produced by local companies require further processing, they must purchase related materials from the field. In addition, due to the lack of In the complete supporting industrial system, Yunnan's stone machinery industry is also blank, there is no large-scale factory building, stone machinery can not be put into production at all."

Yunnan will intensify support is gratifying, by the Yunnan Provincial Development and Reform Commission led drafting and will be issued in the near future, "Yunnan Provincial People's Government to accelerate the development of stone industry in Yunnan," proposed that will optimize the industrial layout and accelerate personnel training In support of the leading enterprises, they give support to the building stone industry policy.

At that time, the provincial finance will arrange a certain amount of budgetary special funds each year. Through grants, interest subsidies, incentives, etc., it will focus on supporting the construction of the market and processing parks, and support the use of new technologies in processing. In terms of personnel training, we will speed up the training of personnel at all levels of processing, design, technology, and fine arts, use existing educational resources, add specialties related to the stone industry, and expand the scale of enrollment. At the same time, the provincial government will also include the exploration of stone resources into the “three-year prospecting” action plan of Yunnan Province, striving to pass the resources of granite, marble, slate, and gravel in the province within three years. Reserves are basically clear.

The above measures have enabled many local construction stone industry practitioners to see the bright future of this industry. Wang Jincheng stated that his company is building a new finishing production base and will be ready for production next year. By then, the high-grade building stone they produce will be expected to be exported to the world. “There is a need for the use of stone in the places where there are buildings. The potential of building stone industry is huge. In the next 5 to 10 years, the construction stone industry will usher in the golden period of development.”