Yunfu City is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province, located in the central and western part of Guangdong Province, south of the middle reaches of Xijiang River, with a land area of 7786.64 square kilometers (including urban area 1967.28 square kilometers). It has jurisdiction over 2 districts and 2 counties, 1 county-level city. Yunfu has a long history of stone processing, so it is called "Stone City".
Yunfu Stone originated in the Neolithic Age, developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the early years of the Republic of China, and flourished from liberation to the end of the last century. In the early 1990s, Yunfu City, a county-level city, issued a series of supporting measures to continuously develop and upgrade the stone industry, which expanded the number and scale of stone enterprises, made the stone industry a characteristic industry and a pillar industry in Yunfu, and officially established Yunfu as one of the three major stone building materials bases in China.
Yunfu's "Baili Stone Gallery", which is more than 50 kilometers long, is very rare in the world and is famous at home and abroad. The stone industry has also provided a large number of investment opportunities and employment opportunities for Yunfu, and has become a vital pillar industry for Yunfu's economic development.
Influence of Yunfu stone industry
Yunfu's stone industry has become one of the largest stone industry clusters in China. At present, there are more than 4,000 stone enterprises on both sides of National Highway 324, with nearly 200,000 stone employees. The products cover 23 categories of 13 series 1000 varieties, and the number of enterprises and the production and sales of stone materials are increasing every year. Known as "China stone base center", "China stone circulation demonstration base" and "China artificial stone capital".
Yunfu's stone cutting and repairing, water jet inlaying, stone carving and handicraft processing are at the international leading level, far exceeding some domestic stone producing areas and industrial gathering areas. Especially water jet mosaic, many technologies are specially created by Yunfu, which is very famous. Every year, a large number of stone enterprises from all over the country go to Yunfu to learn from them. Many stone enterprises in Fujian, Guangdong and other places have to entrust Yunfu stone enterprises with production and processing after receiving orders to ensure the quality and quality of stone.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yunfu City