The Culture of Freshwater Pearls
A great irony of pearl history is that the least expensive cultured pearl product in the market today rivals the quality of the most expensive natural pearls ever found. The price-value anomaly is obvious to consumers as they hasten to buy Chinese freshwater bargains. Indeed, pearls from freshwater mussels lie at the center of the liveliest activity in pearling today.... >> Read More
Chinese Pearl Export Trend
Before the 1980's, China’s pearl output was mainly directed toward exports. For the 1990's, the domestic sales volume also rapidly rises, synchronizing development of both the foreign and domestic pearl markets.During 1971, for the first time, China exported only 0.6 kilograms of pearls to Japan. >> Read More
China's Pearl Trading Center Eyes World No. 1
A conglomerate of pearl companies from China's Hong Kong and mainland is planning to build the world's largest pearl trading center in coastal Zhejiang Province in eastern China, a Hong Kong businessman from one of the companies told Xinhua in Las Vegas on Monday. >> Read More
The Third Pearl Wave In China
Now China is in what we can call its Third Pearl Wave. Starting in the 1990s, China surprised the market with products that are revolutionizing pearling. The shapes, luster, and colors of the new Chinese production often match original Biwa quality and sometime even surpass it; certainly the new orange .... >> Read More
Is Chinese Pearl Farming Imperiled?
It took Japan decades to ruin its pearl farming industry with overproduction and pollution. Now China seems to be repeating the process in a matter of years. This month, the news has only been bad for both the salt and freshwater sectors.... >> Read More
Freshwater Pearl Culture and Production In China
China has harvested freshwater pearls for many centuries in the 'zhuji' of China. World production and cultivation of freshwater pearls is dominated by the Chinese, who grown the mollusks in lakes, rivers, and ponds within the Zhejiang coastal region (aka "the hometown of pearl"). >> Read More
The Freshwater Pearl Explosion
The Chinese have always done things a little differently. Whether it's reading from the right or governing from the left, the world's oldest continuous nation plods on inexorably, often making up its model as it goes along.... >> Read More
Chinese Pearl Production in Regional Farms
China has harvested freshwater pearls for many centuries in the 'zhuji' of China. World production and cultivation of freshwater pearls is dominated by the Chinese, who grown the mollusks in lakes, rivers, and ponds within.... >> Read More