The 13th Donghai Crystal Festival

Yesterday morning, the 13th China East China Sea International Crystal Festival opened. Nearly 4,000 Chinese and foreign guests attended to witness this grand event. Former Vice Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Zhang Huaixi, Vice Governor Cao Weixing, Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and Director of the Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee Yang Shengshi, and Mayor Zhao Xiaojiang jointly launched the opening ceremony of the Crystal Festival. Zhao Shaohua, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and deputy director of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, and municipal leaders Li Guozhang, Dong Chunke, Wang Kaiyu and Cao Jiaming attended the opening ceremony. Since 1991, Donghai County has adhered to the purpose of "crystals as a medium to let the world understand the East China Sea; using crystals as a bridge to let the East China Sea go to the world" and has successfully held 12 Crystal Festivals. With the theme of "Crystal City, Blessed as the East China Sea", this year's Crystal Festival focuses on building a happy East China Sea, giving full play to the influence of the East China Sea Crystal brand and the resource advantages of the world's natural crystal distribution center, through displaying exquisite crystal products, highlighting crystal culture and improving the development level of the crystal industry. , expand investment promotion, build the world's crystal capital, promote economic transformation and upgrading, and promote coordinated regional economic and social development. The main activities of this Crystal Festival are composed of four parts: publicity and promotion, theme activities, cultural tourism, and economic and trade investment promotion. Focusing on publicity and promotion, the county has successively held Crystal Festival press conferences in Taiwan, Shanghai and other places. At the same time, it has organized large-scale news interview activities for the mainstream media Donghai Tour to promote Donghai Crystal in an all-round and three-dimensional way. The long-prepared movie "Crystal Girl" was also launched. Premiered during Crystal Festival. During the Crystal Festival, Donghai County will also hold the first "Jinghua Award" competition for natural crystal carvings, ornamental stones and ornaments in China, the unveiling ceremony of the studio of Chinese jade carving master Zhang Yucheng and the master's boutique exhibition, and the "Crystal Color World" Chinese and foreign rare stones. Exhibition, Czech Crystal Exhibition, Crystal King Return Exhibition, "Crystal Culture Creativity and Design" Master Lecture, "East China Sea Crystal" Top Ten Brand Selection and Observation of the Donghai Crystal Culture and Creative Industrial Park Industrial Development Platform and many other themed activities to maximize the display of crystal. cultural charm and expand the brand influence of "China's Crystal Capital". In addition to theme activities, the county will also hold cultural tourism activities such as the "Nationally Famous Writers Look at the East China Sea" collection and creation activities, Chinese crystal calligraphy art exhibition, the 4th China·East China Sea Hot Spring Bathing Cultural Festival, and a series of economic and trade investment promotion activities.

Donghai County, the "Crystal Capital of China", is located in the core area of ??the "Belt and Road" construction and the eastern starting point of the New Eurasian Continental Bridge Economic Corridor. It has established good economic ties with the United States, Australia, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands and other countries The cooperative relationship has formed an industrial cluster based on advantageous industries such as silicon industry, food industry, new building materials, machinery and auto parts, etc. The county economy ranks 91st among the top 100 counties in the country.

"The crystal of the East China Sea is the best in the world". The crystal reserves and quality of the East China Sea rank first in the country. The 4.35-ton "Crystal King" now displayed in the China Geological Museum came from the East China Sea. The raw materials of Chairman Mao Zedong's crystal coffin also came from the East China Sea. Utilizing natural endowments and unleashing people's creativity, about 250,000 people in the county are involved in the crystal industry. They purchase crystals all over the world, and the processed crystals are sold all over the world. In the East China Sea, you can go to the Crystal World and see the world's crystals. "Popular entrepreneurship and innovation" are constantly emerging among the Donghai people of "Taojing". At present, the county has more than 2,000 crystal processing enterprises of various types, forming an annual production scale of 30 million pieces of crystal jewelry and 5 million pieces of crystal handicrafts. The annual transaction volume exceeds 10 billion, and it has accepted the preliminary evaluation of "World Crystal Capital". It was rated as the characteristic industrial base for government and business gifts in China and the hometown of crystal carving art in China.

The crystal clear crystal gives the people of Donghai more glory and dreams. Focusing on making beautiful "crystal" business cards, Donghai County has formed a "one city, one park, one museum" crystal industry development platform. One city is China Crystal City. Construction of the new Crystal City started in 2014, with a construction area of ??approximately 450,000 square meters. Halls 1 and 2 will be put into use by the end of this year. One Park is the Crystal Cultural and Creative Industrial Park. The country's first crystal cultural and creative industrial park is planned to cover an area of ??1,000 acres and has a total construction area of ??300,000 square meters. Nearly 30 well-known crystal processing companies at home and abroad have settled in and are operating. In September 2015, it passed the "China Crystal Cultural Creative Industrial Park" assessment. The first museum is the China East China Sea Crystal Museum. In 2015, it was approved as the "East China Sea Branch of China Geological Museum".

As the only crystal-themed museum in the country, it has a construction area of ??27,300 square meters and covers the functions of crystal formation display, crystal culture development, and crystal collection display. Donghai County promotes the development of the crystal cultural industry through branding and continuously enhances the popularity and reputation of crystal. "East China Sea Crystal" was awarded the National Geographical Indication Protection Product, selected as a "Jiangsu Symbol", and was awarded the title of the most influential tourism geographical indication in the Yangtze River Delta region. China's first professional crystal magazine "East China Sea Crystal" was published, CCTV's "Treasure Hunting: Entering the East China Sea" was broadcast globally, and the film and television works "Crystal Edge", "Crystal Girl" and the song "Crystal Love" became famous far and wide.

Donghai County has been approved as a national ecological demonstration zone, a national ecological county, a national smart city pilot county, a national sustainable development experimental zone and a civilized city in Jiangsu Province. Since 1991, Donghai County has successfully held 12 Crystal Festivals with the purpose of "using crystals as a medium to let the world understand the East China Sea; using crystals as a bridge to let the East China Sea go to the world". The 13th China East China Sea International Crystal Festival was held from October 28 to 30, 2015. With the theme of "The City of Crystals is as Blessed as the East China Sea", this year's Crystal Festival focuses on building a happy East China Sea and exerting the influence of the Donghai Crystal brand and the world. The resource advantage of the natural crystal distribution center is to showcase crystal quality products, highlight crystal culture, enhance the development of the crystal industry, expand investment promotion, create a world crystal capital, promote economic transformation and upgrading, and promote coordinated regional economic and social development.