On August 8, 2005, the Asian jewelry federation awarded Tengchung the title as "the First City of China’s jadeite"; on August 25, Asian jewelry federation President Li Jingsong will crown officially "Tengchung – First City of China jadeite" in Kunming.
Tengchung was the important trading port ever since the ancient time, the special geographical superiority and the deep cultural inside story, cause Tengchung to become the Southeast Asia important jewelry jade collection and distribution center, the jadeite processing and the jadeite culture birthplace. From more than 500 years ago, beginning of a matter of the Tengchung merchant opening remarks world jadeite processing had been established a very long period of time after new China, before 1996, Tengchung is always the biggest jade jadeite collection and distribution center, the transaction center and the processing base; it is also the only national import channel. At the same time, for it is only 150 kilometers from the world jadeite production area, Tengchung has effect of jadeite culture birthplace, created and developed jadeite culture, disseminated jadeite civilization. |
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