China's jewelry export grew 24.99 percent year on year to
US$4.96 billion during the January-November period of 2005, figures
from the Chinese customs show.
During the 11-month period, China exported noble metal jewelry
worth US$1.826 billion, diamonds worth US$1.278 billion, and pearls
worth US$128 million, statistics show.
Southern Guangdong Province contributes 55.43 percent of China's
total jewelry export, which was 2.75 billion U.S. dollars.
The export volume of Shandong Province, Shanghai and Beijing
municipalities, Zhejiang, Hunan and Fujian provinces stood at
US$512 million, US$260 million, US$207 million, US$189 million,
US$173 million and US$169 million respectively, ranking from the
second to the seventh among all China's provincial regions.
China's capacity in jewelry process has been greatly enhanced in
recent years, and the country is expected to become a world jewelry
process center in the future.
Figures show that over 80 percent of jewelry sold in Hong Kong
is processed and manufactured on the Chinese mainland, which now
has more than 200 factories wholly processing jewelry for overseas
markets.
(Xinhua News Agency January 5, 2006)
