The National Jewelry Exhibition Hall is considered as a good place to buy rubies and sapphires, and four jade auctions are held here every year. In June 2005, 5438+ 10, there were 1236 foreign investors participating in the auction, and the transaction amount was as high as 48 million US dollars. In recent years, with the continuous improvement of people's purchasing power in China, their love for jadeite is growing day by day, and jade merchants in China have gradually become the protagonists of Yangon auction. According to a jade boss, jade merchants from Guangdong, China, spend a lot of money at every auction, which is very generous, often two or three times that of Myanmar, and almost all the jade hairs are taken. Many Burmese woolen businessmen think that there is no profit at all, but they are still "profitable".
Therefore, Chinese jade merchants, represented by Jieyang, Sihui and Pingzhou in China, Guangdong, are firmly imprisoned as top buyers.
The fire storm in Yunnan jade market is closely related to Myanmar.
Emerald jade is a non-renewable resource, and Myanmar implements the policy of "limited mining" and "restricting the export of fine jade". From June 5438+1mid-October, 2005, the Ministry of Mines of Myanmar stipulated that about 10 Myanmar jade companies would draw lots to decide the export order, and each time they could export 100 tons of jade. It took about 3 days to go through the export formalities. It is estimated that they can handle about 100 times a month and export nearly 1000 tons. These companies have their own mines in Pagan, and they also act as agents for wool marketing of other jade merchants.
Several large companies in Mandalay mainly include Jingu, Hongbang and Winner, which constitute an important force in Myanmar's jade wool export, and export a large number of jade wool to China, Hongkong, Yunnan, Guangdong and other places every year. The fire storm in Yunnan jade market is closely related to them. Before 200 1, they exported a lot of jade wool to Yunnan through land border trade ports. Tengchong and Ruili, Yunnan, which have geographical advantages, have formed the largest distribution center of jade wool in China and sold it to Hong Kong, Guangdong and other places. After 200 1, the Myanmar government banned the export of jade wool in border trade, and a large number of middle and high-grade jade materials were transported by sea, and the jade trading volume on the border between China and Myanmar dropped sharply. In order to recreate the glory of Yunnan Jade Trading Center, local governments and enterprises have given many preferential policies in taxation and customs clearance procedures. The favorable conditions have further intensified the competition in the jade market, and the demand for jade wool is in short supply, which has really become "the emperor's daughter does not worry about marriage." The asking price of jewelry stores can basically be reduced by 5 to 20%.
If you want to buy jade wool, you must first prepare enough funds, at least several million, the more the better, otherwise it is impossible. With funds, you can go to two places, one is the national treasure jewelry exhibition hall mentioned above to participate in the auction, and the other is a few private companies, such as Jingu Company and Hongbang Company. The reporter once saw a piece of high-quality jade wool in Hongbang Company, and the lowest asking price was 8 million US dollars, so he was unwilling to sell it (see photo). Whether you can buy desirable jade wool in these places depends on your knowledge. Of course, we should also pay attention to Myanmar's jade export policy and related procedures.
If you want to buy finished products, you can go to Aung San comprehensive market, or you can go to OK, Jin Wang, Tianbao, Fu Mei, Baoyuan and other jewelry stores. If you are sure of your ability to tell the truth from the false, you can go to Aung San General Market, look around and ask more questions, and maybe you can find really cheap and good things. Otherwise, I suggest you go to these jewelry stores mentioned above, which can basically guarantee that jade is A goods, and the processing of these stores is relatively fine, especially the processing level of jade carvings and bracelets is quite satisfactory. As for the price, according to the reporter's experience in Yangon for many years, the asking price of jewelry stores can basically be reduced by 50% to 20%. All the people in these jewelry stores can speak Chinese, and many of them are overseas Chinese or Chinese, so most of them will succeed immediately if they don't talk about it. Finally, there is another trick. No matter where you buy jade products, you should ask the boss for the government tax-paid invoice. On the one hand, it can guarantee the customs release when the goods leave the customs. On the other hand, once the goods are found to have problems, you can basically return them as long as you come back with the invoice. ▲
In the past, the sale of jadeite original stone was the most mysterious transaction in the jewelry industry, and her mystery lay in this gambling word, so buyers also said it was a bet on jade and stone.
As mentioned above, many kinds of old pits often have a layer of skin on their surfaces. Due to oxidation, the skin becomes reddish brown, dark brown or other variegated colors. Generally, we can't see its true face only from the outside. Even in today's advanced science, no instrument can quickly judge whether it is a treasure or a loser through this shell.
People who buy jade must judge the value of this piece of jade from the original stone wrapped in the leather shell (sometimes opening a window on the skin means wiping off a small piece of leather shell to expose the jade). This process of buying and selling is a process in which buyers and sellers compete for a piece of jade with leather. Because this judgment is based on experience, and the geological environment in which jade is formed is very complicated, the conditions are different, and the skin formed will vary from factory to factory, so the risk of buying and selling is great and exciting, so it is called gambling. Winning the bet was very profitable, so this business lasted for a long time.
It is said that Burmese jade merchants, after gambling on stones, generally dare not attend the actual cutting and processing, but burn incense nearby and pray for God's blessing. If there is a lot of bright green in the cut gambling stone, you can get rich overnight; If the gambling stone is cut, its essence is a piece of green outside and white inside? Quot grey sand head will be destroyed overnight.
The jadeite producing areas in Myanmar are mainly distributed in the Wulong River basin in northern Myanmar, a tributary of the Qindun River, and on the boundary line between western Kachin State and Sagaing Province, extending north (133) in the east-west direction, with a length of about 250 kilometers and a width of about 15 kilometers. Jadeite mines are distributed in a strip shape, and different quality jadeites are mined in different sections, forming different pits.
There are four most famous factories in the history of Myanmar: Dumao, Panmao, Myanmar and Nannai. Many green and shiny jade jewelry are mostly produced in the above four areas. However, after hundreds of years of mining, many of the above-mentioned old pits have been nearly hollowed out, and it is difficult to see jade articles in these old pits at present. Now the more famous potholes are Pagan, Mamengwan, Yu Bingxuan, Nanqi, Damukan, Molu and Houjiang. These names are transliteration of Burmese place names. Jade in different pits has different size, different skin and different quality.
For example, Moro stone is often well planted, has good water quality and high color, but it is old and blue, but its color is dark and not bright, cracked and rotted, and its hardness is high; Hemp bend stone, crystal clear skin, rough hands, often foggy, thin and even skin, thick skin, mostly blue in color, with white in blue. If you want to know the jade quality of different potholes, you need to visit the place of origin and keep exploring and accumulating, so that you can know a little.
The price of raw stone continues to rise.
A spokesman for Myanmar Gem EnterprISe, a subsidiary of Myanmar's Ministry of Mines, said recently that the special sales of jadeite, gems and pearls in Naypyidaw, the capital of Myanmar, reached a record high of 20 1 1.
According to statistics, 9366 merchants from local and other countries participated in this special auction, and finally sold about 2 1.500 batches of jade ornaments through auction, all of which reached the highest level in history. Myanmar Gem Company did not disclose the final turnover, but said that the turnover exceeded 2 billion euros of the 48th Myanmar Jade Jewelry Fair held in Naypyidaw, and most of the buyers were from Chinese mainland and Hongkong.
Insiders in Myanmar pointed out that the quality of jadeite jewelry in this special auction is significantly higher than that in previous sessions, which is one of the reasons for the record high turnover.
20 1 1 year, Myanmar held two jewelry and jade fairs in Naypyidaw (in March and1/year) and a special sale (in July), which was hosted by Myanmar Ministry of Mines and others. , and all by auction. As Myanmar was sanctioned by the United States, the auction was settled in euros.