Buying jade regardless of origin is also out of Hetian jade

Jade is one of the Chinese people's favorite gems. It is a special symbol that records Chinese history, culture and social life. Among them, Hetian jade is one of the most famous and highest-value jade. However, if the Hetian jade you purchased at a high price is not produced from the Xinjiang Hetian area in China, but from the raw materials of jade extracted from Russia, can you accept such Russian Hetian jade?

Dongning County of Heilongjiang Province is adjacent to Russia's Primorsky Krai and is a state-level land port. In the Dongning Mutual Trade Zone next to the port, there are no fewer than 100 shops serving Hetian jade. Dongning County is not a place of jade production. However, a large number of treasure stone merchants and collectors come here to select jade materials and jade carving works. Their goal is to use Russian jade raw materials from across the port.

The resources of Hetian jade in China have already been exhausted, the output is getting less and less, the price is getting higher and higher, and it can no longer meet the needs of the domestic market. The domestic jade resources encountered a bottleneck and required other resources to fill the market, so everyone turned their attention to Russia's rich jade resources.

According to industry statistics, Russia's jade resources are rich in reserves, accounting for about 70% of the world, and the origin of Russia's jade and Xinjiang Hetian belong to the Kunlun Mountains, both of which are relatively close in quality, which is why Russian jade is easily accepted by the Chinese market. one. Compared with Hetian jade produced in Xinjiang, Qinghai, and South Korea, Canada and other places, Russia's jade currently enjoys certain advantages in terms of quantity, price, and market share.

Gusu Baiyutang’s chairman and jade jeweler Huang Zhenghua spent most of his life dealing with Hetian jade. He believes that the white jade and jasper produced in Russia are currently taking up a large amount in the market. Russian jasper has now dominated the domestic jasper market, especially the jasper bracelets, jasper pendants, etc., are all Russian jasper. Russian white jade can also account for more than 50% of the domestic white jade market.

Although Russian jade has entered the Chinese market for nearly 20 years, it still has the strange phenomenon of “high market acceptance and low consumer awareness”.

Is Russian jade a Hetian jade?

Many consumers find that, at the retail end, they often see only the sale of Hetian jade stores, but it is difficult to see the signs of Russian jade. Is the business "mixed with fish" and deliberately confusing the origin of jade?

Fang Damin, Director of Inspection Department of Heilongjiang Province Gold and Silver Jewellery & Jade Appraisal Center, presented a document to the reporter—“National Standard (GB/T 16552-2010) Name of Jewellery and Jade,” which included the naming principles of “natural jade”. It is clear that the basic name of natural jade with place names does not have meaning of origin.

For this standard, Fang Damin explained that before the introduction of the national standard, people believed that only the jade produced in Xinjiang Hetian could be called Hetian jade, but after the introduction of the national standard, the name of Hetian jade would be enlarged and the tremolite would be The jade of the class is called Hetian jade. In other words, the name Hetian jade does not have meaning of origin. Whether it is produced in Xinjiang, Qinghai, Russia, or even South Korea, it is called Hetian jade if it meets the standard. “According to international practice, when we issue the Hetian jade appraisal certificate, we do not need to indicate its place of origin.” Therefore, when consumers purchase, if they do not specifically question the origin, the merchant is not obliged to inform the sale of Hetian jade in the end is produced in Xinjiang. Hetian, or Russia and other places.

Buy jade to see the essence of the origin of "flicker"

Some merchants want to make a fuss about the origin of Hetian jade. In addition to the high popularity of Hetian jade in Xinjiang and the low recognition of Russian jade, there are also reasons that drive profit. Huang Zhenghua said that the current fine Xinjiang Hetian seed can reach 1 million yuan per kilogram, and the same price of Russian seeds is also 2,000 to 300,000 yuan per kilogram.

"So there is a business, it is clearly the Russian jade, he will charge Xinjiang Hetian jade to sell. If you encounter non-professional buyers, light to hear the origin, you will lose." Huang Zhenghua said.

Fang Damin, who has long been engaged in the identification of jewelery and jade, is now the most “headache”. Some people will hold a piece of Hetian jade to let him identify where the origin is. Fang Damin said: "If it is a little jade material, we can tell whether it is Xinjiang Xinjiang field material. If the jade material is really very good, it is difficult to distinguish the origin from the instrument technology."

For some consumers and entry-level collectors who blindly listened to the "origin of origin" and non-Xinjiang field materials that are thrown up by merchants, Fang Damin said that such misunderstandings are widespread in many people's minds. “Not every piece of jade produced in Xinjiang Hetian is better than elsewhere. Consumers buy jade, not buying places of origin,” said Fang Damin.

Some merchants from the Russian incoming market analysis, the current Russian raw material prices have risen to a historical high, "No. 7" Russian raw material has reached 13,000 yuan a kilogram, in view of the current price, China's jade raw material suppliers need Adjustment, the domestic market, the accumulation of jade materials need to be digested, so the short-term price of russia will be in a relatively stable transitional stage. In the long run, the demand in the Chinese market is still strong, and the prospects of the Russian market will become better and better.