According to the latest statistics of China’s General Administration of Customs, in just the last in 2009, although the world faced a financial crisis, but China’s total imports and exports of stone is only lower than the 7.7% the previous year still reached 50 billion in scale, once again shows that China stone industry has the resilience to adapt to the international market.

In 2009 China exported 21.33 million tons stone, earned 3.611 billion U.S. dollars, compared with the previous year (2008 to 28.33 million tons, 3.943 billion U.S. dollars) were reduced by 25.06% and 8.39%. Reduce the rate significantly lower than the export volume decrease in the value of exports increases, shows that our stone to further adjust the product mix is also beginning to show the effectiveness of that unit of value created rapidly. Stone Industry Trade Experts point out that this is a stone structure of export products and export markets to adjust the results of the financial crisis has enabled us to obtain this rare opportunity to adjust led to a stone export value-added has increased significantly.

2009, imports of stone from the point of view, a total of imported 8.11 million tons, 1.45 billion U.S. dollars in foreign currency, respectively, over the previous year (2008 to 8.19 million tons, 1.545 billion U.S. dollars) 0.97% reduced the number of imports can be said that the number of basic flat; imports reduced the amount of 6.12%. The total number of such imports were flat, while the use of foreign exchange to reduce the number of shows that our purchase of foreign currency with less to a more international stone products. In the past, the international market price of stone products for many years strong, so that only the chance to catch up with the financial crisis. And in 2008, compared with the same currency in 2009 to buy 50 million tons of stone, USD 2.5 million cubic meters of stone blocks. Therefore, stone trade experts have repeatedly explained that the crisis also contains business opportunities, if our companies can take advantage of good prices and the time difference, at a low price when you import more blocks in economic recovery, its difference to be profitable.

If in 2009 China Stone Trade to be a statistics, the annual imports and exports still amounted to 5.065 billion U.S. dollars, 29.34 million tons; respectively over the previous year, total imports and exports (2008 to 5.488 billion U.S. dollars, 36.52 million tons) reduced by 7.7%, 19.66%. Is not hard to see that the number of lower rate is much higher than the value of the benefits of foreign trade of China’s stone further.

Outlook 2010, in stabilizing the world economy against the backdrop of warming up, there is justification, there is confidence in the belief that China Stone Trade is expected to go beyond best period in history.