Technical Renovation Revives "Ceramic City"

Through technical innovation, Jinjiang, one of the country's main cities that manufactures ceramics, rejuvenated its historically famous industry.

At a just-concluded four-day National Ceramic and Stone Fair in Jinjiang, enterprises in the city signed contracts valued at 1.2 billion yuan (US$145 million).

There are now over 1,000 ceramic enterprises in Jinjiang, producing a total of 500 million square meters of ceramics annually and exporting them to Singapore, the Philippines, Vietnam, Japan, Australia, Middle East, South Africa and East Europe.

More than 30 enterprises passed the ISO 9000 Quality Authentication and 11 passed both quality and system authentication.

Jinjiang was famous for ceramics in the past, but the industry declined in 1980s owing to poor techniques, quality and pollution.

In the 1990s, the local government worked out the strategy to control pollution by using technical renovations and industrial structure tuning, which guarantees the healthy development of the industry in the city.

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