According to the reckons by the world bank, the world stone industry will have a faster development in 2013, the output of material is expected to reach 80.86 million tons, and the output of 12 main producer will reach 73 million tons, which will still dominate 90% stone material of the world.

In 2003, it is expected to be 15 countries that the consumption is more than 10 million square meters of in the main slab country. China is 77.46 million square meters; The United States is 45.8 million square meters; Japan is 36.41 million square meters; Spain is 31.49 million square meters; India is 31.14 million square meters; Italy is 17.38 million square meters among them. The consumption of 15 main stone consumers occupy about more than 80% of the total world consumption, the traditional consumption pattern will not occur big changes.

It is estimated that the exports volume of the main six stone materials country will be in 1 million tons in 2013: China is 11.3 million tons; Italy is 4.56 million tons; Spain is 3.65 million tons; India is 2.8 million tons; Portugal is 1.32 million tons; Brazil is 1.22 million tons. The total export amount of the six countries is about 24.85 million tons, which is occupy about 89% of the world trade volume, the traditional trade pattern will not occur big changes, too. The main reason for the above six countries owns a large stone export volume is that these countries have the world rare and precious stone varieties.

The vast land of China contain rich precious stone mineral deposits, the region in the coastal, inland, the western region has treasures stone mine, Beijing, Fujian, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Guangxi, Yunnan, etc. are all the main producing area of precious stone, which provides the most basic guarantee for the development of stone industry, expand the stone export.