As one of the global sunrise industry, the stone industry is developing very fast in recent years. Since 1990, theion and trade volume of global stone material in each year is growth with the speed of respectively 7.3% and 9.2%. The development of the whole industry is obviously faster than other industries. According to the prediction from some experts, the annual output value of global industry will exceed $300 billion in 2015.

Globalization promotes the development of China stone industry. China, as a member of the world stone industry, we full beyond the traditional stone material power Italy and Spain, and become the largest stoneion, consumption and export power in the world began from 2005. Nowadays, many international stone material customers gradually transfer from Italy, Turkey, Brazil and other countries to China, the proportion of China stone increases day by day in the international stone market.

Under the background of rapid development of economy and society, under the promotion of different elements, like the speed up of urbanization, the pulling of state investment, the upgrade of consumer and other multiple factors, the stone industry in our country is facing another development spring. According to the related department statistics show that the main business income for the stone material enterprise which has a certain scale reached 241.4 billion RMB in 2011, up by 20.6% over the previous year, the total import and export volume and quantity of stone material are also realized the sharp increase.

The professional expert thinks that the world stone production and trade center has transformed from the traditional European regions to China from Asia.