World Stone Focus on China, China Stone Focus on Fujian, Fujian Stone Focus on Xiamen

Stone exporting is the traditional and most important industry in Xiamen, occupying an important position in the Xiamen foreign trade export for a long time. Stone producing and exporting in the south of Fujian Province is centuries-old and well-known at home and abroad, rated as one of the main stone produce and export bases in China and even in the world. So far, there are more than 1000 professional stone imports & exports enterprises in Xiamen and 6000 stone processing enterprises in its neighboring areas, specializing in producing and exporting all kinds of granite, marble, slab, tiles, special-shaped stone, slate, stone-carved crafts, tomb stones, garden stones, strange stone and artificial stone products. Xiamen has already been the biggest stone trade base in China. According to statistics, one third containers exporting from Xiamen port are stone! In 2005, the volume of import and export of stone through the port of Xiamen was USD 1,720 million. This accounts for 60% of the total volume of stone trade in China. The export volume of natural stone reached almost 4.44 million tons, amounted to 1.25 billion. The import volume went up to 2.56 million tons with the amount of 470 million.

Xiamen Stone industry is developing into an international stone trade center not only depends on local resource. Taking advantage of its own comprehensive resource and integrating with the production suppliers of neighboring area, Xiamen stone industry forms a whole supply chain combination. This combination has already begun to offer Chinese stone even the Italian, Brazilian, Indian, Norwegian stone to the markets of Japan, Europe and U.S.A., etc., Xiamen grows up as a large sales field of international stone gradually. In Xiamen, overseas traders can buy the high-quality stone products of any variety of the world. With the support of the government and the coordination of the industry, Xiamen international Stone trade center will be more effective and practical.