Thayer took everyone to a local restaurant, chose a specialty store, had a meal, and then took everyone to continue the visit.

"Yangon City is blessed with natural conditions and abundant resources, with three major export products, namely rice, teak and precious stones, Yangon's gems and jade are well-known in the world, and the gemstone trade has become one of the country's main sources of foreign exchange," he said. ”

Zhou Sen nodded, "Yes, I have also heard that Myanmar's gemstones are very famous, and many tourists will bring jewelry back from traveling in Myanmar to keep for themselves, or give to relatives and friends." ”

Liu Dazhuang said: "Myanmar's gems are really good, I have a friend from Myanmar brought back rubies, I have also seen it, it is really beautiful, my friend likes it very much, he is reluctant to give it to us, pay to buy it with him, he will not sell!"

"Hahaha......" everyone laughed.

"Then I'll introduce it to you!"

Myanmar is the world's famous gem and jade production area, the main source of gems is Mogok, rich in rubies, sapphires, in the Shan State Nandu Binglong village found a new gem source, Myanmar will be around Binglong as Myanmar exclusive gem production area, jade mines are distributed in the northern part of Kachin State, the main production areas are Monggong, Kampati, Nongken, Pagan, diamonds are mainly produced in the vicinity of Jingduo Village in Mengmi Township.

"There are many things that can represent wealth, such as diamonds, gold jewelry, etc., jewelry is more elegant than money, so some people would rather spend a lot of money to buy the jewelry they want. ”

"The world's largest jewelry market is in Myanmar, where jadeite and other jewelry are abundant, which is famous all over the world, and you can see places to buy and sell everywhere here, but the shops that buy and sell jadeite are not as tall as everyone thinks. ”

"There are no luxury shops, and the scene of buying and selling jewelry in Myanmar is a bit similar to buying vegetables in a wet market, where merchants put jadeite and other goods on the ground, and if customers like a certain item, they can bargain with the stall owner, negotiate the price, and then they can make a deal, pay for it, and take the selected item. ”

"This is a relatively backward place in Myanmar, unlike other big cities where there are mature business circles, luxury shops, professional waiters or shopping guides to explain the characteristics of the goods in detail, and provide customers with professional shopping guidance. ”

"Myanmar's jewelry turnover is very huge, the daily turnover is very high, there are a lot of tourists who come here to pick up jewelry, you can buy the jewelry you want directly, and the price is much lower than the imported one, which is the reason why tourists go directly to the local purchase, buying and selling jewelry has become the core industry of Myanmar, but this still cannot change the fact that Myanmar is poor. ”

"In Myanmar, there are still many people who can't even eat, the gap between the rich and the poor is huge, and the rich are also rich, but the rich are always a minority, most of them are poor, but there is a jewelry market here, and it is very popular, and buying and selling jadeite has become an industry, and many people are engaged in this industry, relying on buying and selling jewelry to support their families, to do this business. ”

"The jadeite in Myanmar is hardly processed, so there are very few finished products, but the price is not cheap. ”

"Some of them are very good jewelry, and many of them are very good jade, which is very rare, and people who come here to buy jewelry must be very knowledgeable, otherwise, if they don't know how to do it, they will not choose, and they must know what is genuine, which is a very important part of identifying jewelry. ”

"If you know how to do it, you will identify jewelry to buy a lot easier, because of the professional knowledge, you can avoid a lot of detours, if you buy the best jadeite, after processing, the price of jadeite products can be more than ten times, and even can get rich overnight. ”

"That's why, more and more people are willing to come to Myanmar to pan for gold, this kind of opportunity is not encountered in other places to do a lifetime of work, a farmer works hard in the field, can not earn much money a year, if you have a smart mind, know how to identify jewelry, come to Myanmar to pan for gold, can identify jewelry that doubles the price, buy and sell it, you can get rich overnight. ”

"There are a lot of legends of getting rich, which makes this place very attractive, and more and more people come to Myanmar to buy jewelry, but people who don't know how to do it are not so easy, and it is not easy to do jewelry business. ”

Liu Dazhuang asked: "If I buy a defective product, what should I do? If I don't know how to do it, will I lose a lot?"

Zhou Sen smiled, "Da Zhuang's question is a good question, we can't just see people who get rich overnight, but also talk about the risk of buying defective products!"

"Well, there are two sides to everything, there is a good side, and of course there is a bad side!"

"The risk of buying defective products is also very great, if you are unlucky and buy a poor quality jadeite, it is undoubtedly a huge sum of money to buy a useless stone, without any value. ”

"Then you have to lose money, no one will buy worthless things, that only think that you are unlucky, you have lost money, very realistic, very cruel, so not everyone can do jewelry business, that requires professional knowledge, and long-term experience in identifying jewelry, to know how to do it, not ordinary people can do business. ”

"Of course, there are still many irregularities in the jewelry market in Myanmar, because it is not a store operating in the name of a store, some stall owners are individuals, and they have not gone through formal industrial and commercial registration, and it is difficult to manage, and individuals bring jewelry to sell in the market, so the risk is very high, there are honest businessmen, of course, there are also the kind of opportunistic, ill-intentioned, very cunning, reselling fake bad people. ”

"They're getting into the jewellery market, and they're going to trick the unsavvy tourists, who are new to Myanmar and are easy to be deceived by the bad guys if they don't have a guide to do so. ”

"I was deceived to report the crime, but because of the different places, many bad people who couldn't find out, or cheated money, had already fled, and the monitoring was not perfect, so they escaped!"

"If you suffer a loss, you may only think that you are unlucky, there is still a certain risk, so it is best to come to Myanmar with an acquaintance and take it to the jewelry market, if you don't have professional knowledge, it is better not to buy it, so as not to buy a fake and suffer a loss!"

"Hmm!" Zhou Sen nodded.

Thayer took everyone to visit the jewelry market here, Zhou Sen saw a lot of vendors, sure enough, as Thayer introduced, the market management here still needs to be strengthened, the cries come and go, there are a lot of people, it looks very prosperous, but the fish and dragons are mixed, and they really need jewelry identification ability, no professional knowledge, no knowledge, they dare not buy.

Thayer took everyone to stop at a few jewelry stalls, looking at the jadeite was really good-looking, but when he asked the price, it was very expensive, Zhou Sen looked at it, and he didn't dare to buy it.

"I really can't tell which one is the real thing and which one is a fake, forget it, we don't have much money on us, just look at it, let's go!"

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