The long-term prospects for the stone industry in Xinjiang are long

By 2015, Xinjiang's stone production will reach 30 million square meters, and it plans to adopt the core radiation plus the layout of local groups to further develop industrial clusters.

According to the "Twelfth Five-Year Development Plan for the Construction Industry of the Autonomous Region", Xinjiang will use the Zhanshan Stone Park and the Qitai Qiqi Stone Park as the core of the regional parks in Qitai, Hami, Heshuo, Wensu and Tori. Qinghe, Bole, and other places have established the mining and processing bases for Xinjiang's superior stone varieties, and promoted the full upgrade and development of the stone industry in Xinjiang.

Can Xinjiang's stone industry accomplish this goal? Recently, the Autonomous Region Building Materials Banking Office invited railway logistics, related functional departments, and stone companies to jointly discuss and plan for the development of the stone industry in Xinjiang.

Stone production capacity increased by 13 times in 10 years Xinjiang's stone development lags behind that in the Mainland, and its history is short-lived.

In 2000, the total stone production in Xinjiang was only 800,000 square meters. However, in the past 10 years, it has become the fastest growing period for the stone industry in Xinjiang.

As of 2010, there are more than 160 stone enterprises in Xinjiang, which have formed a mining capacity of 500,000 cubic meters of stone blocks and 17 million square meters of stone plate processing capacity.

From January to September 2011, the total investment in the stone industry in the region was about 230 million yuan, and the plate production was 9.5 million square meters, an increase of 61% over the previous year; the industrial output value was 1.16 billion yuan, an increase of 65% over the same period last year. In 2011, the total plate production was 14.5 million square meters, and the output value was 1.74 billion yuan, an increase of 30% over the same period of last year.

According to statistics from the Autonomous Region Building Materials Administration, the stone production capacity in Xinjiang increased by 13 times in 10 years, becoming the second largest echelon of the country and becoming a pillar industry of building materials export in our region.

Resource advantages hit the end of the construction of the park to give power to Xinjiang's stone industry can be achieved in such a high performance in 10 years?

Resource advantages and park construction policies are the main factors.

It is understood that stone is one of the most advantageous minerals in our region. It is widely distributed throughout the region, prefectures (cities), and has excellent varieties and large-scale stone mineral resources. Its geological work has great potential, mainly in Turpan and Hami. In Changji, Bazhou, Altay, Aksu, Tacheng, and Bozhou, more than 200 types of decorative stone deposits (points) have been discovered.

But Shanshan County, Hami City, Qitai County, Heshuo County, Qinghe County, Tori County, Fuhai County, Wensu County, Bole City and other places with rich resources have all been introduced according to their own characteristics and advantages. Stone development policies and industrial development plans have set up stone industrial parks or processing zones, and the effect of stone industry clusters has become increasingly apparent.

Especially in the recent 10 years, the stone processing and trade base represented by the “Shanshan Stone Industrial Park” has risen rapidly. The stone industry bases in Qitai, Hami, Heshuo, Qinghe, and Tori, and the stone trade and export bases in Urumqi have formed one after another. .

In 2005, Shanshan Stone Industrial Park became the first provincial stone industrial park in western China. In 2011, Qitai County Stone Industrial Park was completed. The current output value of the two parks accounted for the total output value of the stone industry in the entire region. 77% of it has become the backbone of the development of the stone industry in Xinjiang.

A stone industry structure with a multi-industry (point) and self-contained system was initially formed. Stone has become one of the industries with the most development advantages and vitality of Xinjiang building materials.

The bottleneck of industrial development constraints Tian Wenguo, director of the Xinjiang Non-metallic Minerals Industry Office, analyzed the current situation of Xinjiang's stone industry. “Rich resources have laid a good foundation for the development of the stone industry. Through nearly 10 years of development, technological innovation capabilities and integration The level of utilization has also been improved, and the national policy has also brought good opportunities for the development of the stone industry, but the industry has been operating extensively and some of the deep-level conflicts and problems have been highlighted."

Tian Guowen stated that the current bottleneck in the stone industry in Xinjiang is the lack of a brand, the difficulty in transporting manufactured goods to the outside world, the beginning of market development in the region, and insufficient investment in exploration.

In this regard, Zhu Li, deputy director of the autonomous region Economic and Information Commission, also agreed. He believes that the stone industry is an industry that focuses on the “old name”. The internationally renowned stone companies have hundreds of years of history, but in the early Xinjiang mine miners and everyone is not the same person, making the stone industry in Xinjiang a short-term behavior. The "old name" famous brand has become the soft underbelly of the development of the stone industry in Xinjiang. It is also due to the short-term behavior in mining that led to a long period of time out of Xinjiang's original mines, and fewer finished products went out. "These are all aspects of the future development of the stone industry in Xinjiang that need to be changed." Zhu Li said.

At the same time, from a macroeconomic point of view, the US Treasury bond crisis and the Euro crisis, as well as domestic housing control policies will also have an impact on the development of the stone industry in our region - the severity of the international economic situation will reduce their demand for our products. Housing control policies will also reduce the number of newly-built properties to a certain extent. If you rely solely on domestic and international markets, the stone industry in Xinjiang will fall into a difficult situation.

Tian Guowen believes that the local market is an element that cannot be ignored in the development of the stone industry in Xinjiang.

Stone companies began to focus on brand building. As Tian Guowen and Zhu Li said, Xinjiang lacks a brand of stone. During the rapid development of the stone industry in the past 10 years, Shan Shan Hong and Kara Milikin became the symbol of high-end stone in Xinjiang. However, the market's demand is divided into high, medium and low grades. Obviously, more brand stone is needed. With the continuous expansion of the market, this phenomenon has also been recognized by stone companies.

In recent years, Shanshan Stone Park has launched "gray snow lotus", "small purple star cloud", "pearl white linen", "loulan gold", "crystal yellow" and "loulan brown" Many products such as Drilling and Loulan Brown Diamond were developed; Qinghe County also developed four series of products: granite, diabase, diorite, and gabbro; Hami City has red, blue, yellow, green, Black, white, brown, purple and other eight series of products.

While owning brands and series of products, Xinjiang's stone producing areas and enterprises also pay attention to technological innovation. Not only meet the needs of high-end, low-end markets with different grades and specifications of plates, but also develop stone crafts to meet the latest market needs. Demand continues to broaden the market.

The market in Xinjiang has attracted attention Due to the excellent quality of mineral products, the stone products in our region are not short of high-end customers. Guangzhou Baiyun Airport has used the products of Xinjiang Guanghui Stone, and Shanshan Stone Festival has customers from Central Asia and Europe. District high-end stone is also rushing. Xinjiang's stone materials, which have entered the mainland market and foreign markets, have been recognized by the industry. However, the US Treasury bond crisis and the Euro crisis as well as domestic housing control policies are also reminding the Xinjiang stone industry to focus on the future market.

In 2011, when the BRT was built in the capital, all the products of the Shanshan Stone Industrial Park were opened, and the previous situation of low-end products such as Fujian and Shandong occupied the local market.

All parties should jointly promote the development of the stone industry. Not only should they have rich resources, good policies, business confidence, and decision-making, there are more external factors.

The expectation of the stone industry in the “12th Five-year Development Plan for Building Materials Industry” of the autonomous region is obviously to regard the stone industry as a pillar industry of the building materials industry. To achieve this goal, exploration, logistics, and corporate efforts are needed.

In this regard, the relevant officials of the Ministry of Land and Resources of the autonomous region confessed that in the past insufficient attention was paid to the development of stone materials. At the same time, they expressed that they will appropriately increase investment and investigation efforts and provide special financial support for resource conservation projects with demonstration effects. At the same time, the central and autonomous region finances also have special funds for exploration.

The relevant person of railway logistics stated that Xinjiang is a raw material base and the markets are all outside. This is both an opportunity and a challenge for the logistics industry. In the current state of tight railway transportation capacity, railway logistics has proposed a solution: “We intend to The Central Plains region has built two logistics distribution bases for secondary distribution to help the stone industry solve the problem of difficult transportation."

The person in charge of the Management Office of the Economic and Cultural Heritage Committee of the Autonomous Region also stated that it will give greater support to the construction of the stone park.