Fan Xingchen returned to Shanghai from the United States, and after more than a week, he was a little idle and was ready to go to SD Changle. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In fact, Fan Xingchen is not particularly idle, except for resting at home on weekends, he goes out to work from Monday to Friday.

The reason why he went to SD Changle was because Fan Xingchen knew that this place produced sapphires, and he was going to use the storage space to collect sapphires underground.

Waiting for free to get the underground sapphire rough, Fan Xingchen can purchase cut sapphires, as well as uncut sapphire roughs, buying rough stones is the most important, so that he can mix the free sapphire rough stones with the rough stones bought with money, and then cut these rough stones into sapphires, whether it is set into jewelry retail, or directly wholesale and sell cut sapphire loose stones, which greatly increases his legal income.

Sapphire, the mineral name is corundum, the hardness is Mohs 9, it is listed as the world's four most precious gemstones along with diamonds, rubies and emeralds. According to the classification of mineralogy, in addition to ruby, corundum with a color and hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale is called sapphire. Sapphires can be divided into blue sapphires and bright colored (non-blue) sapphires.

In the world's gemstone culture, sapphire is endowed with the meaning of wisdom and auspiciousness with its mysterious, dreamlike color, and it also symbolizes romantic love.

In the 80s of the last century, many sapphire deposits were discovered in the basalt along the eastern coast of China, among which SD Changle sapphire was the best quality.

Coming to Changle, Fan Xingchen talked with the locals in the process, he learned that as early as 3,000 years ago in the Zhou Dynasty, here was once glorious, today's CL County Yingqiu Village is the earliest capital of Qi at that time, the first monarch of Qi is the ancient Chinese famous Jiang Ziya - Jiang Taigong, he ruled the country here for 50 years.

It can be said that Changle is a place where Qilu culture pioneered.

In Changle folk, there are countless stories about Jiang Taigong's clever calculations, but when he said that he predicted that there would be sapphires here three thousand years ago, Fan Xingchen smiled when he heard it.

The sapphire ore of Changle can be divided into primary ore and secondary ore, the so-called primary ore is the stone containing the sapphire ore body, after millions of years of crustal movement, the primary ore exposed in the wilderness is gradually weathered, the sapphire crystal in the ore is stripped out, with the flood washing and transport, in the ravine riverbed near the volcano, the secondary ore of sapphire is formed in the farmland village, the local people also call it sand ore.

Many years ago, in the area of Changle Fangshan, the old man herding sheep picked up an angular, hard, deep blue and bright stone in the ravine, and used it to rub the fire sickle to light a cigarette, they called it blue flint;

Because of the ignorance of sapphires, in the 80s of the last century, outsiders "plundered" a large number of Changle sapphires with excellent quality by mining or purchasing them at a low price.

In 1985, the problem of sapphire loss attracted the attention of the local government department, and since then relevant management policies have been formulated to strengthen the management of sapphire.

Changle people are lucky, and sapphire is a treasure given to Changle by God. In 1993, Changle prepared to build a national large-scale jewelry professional wholesale market - China Gem City, realizing the development of Changle jewelry industry processing and operation from fragmentation to accumulation.

In 1996, CL County established the country's first county-level gem and jade association to plan, coordinate, supervise and manage the jewelry industry, and at the same time provide market information, technical training, business guidance, quality appraisal and other services for the development of the jewelry industry, which has played a positive role in promoting the healthy development of the jewelry industry.

In 2002, with an investment of 15 million yuan, the China Gem and Jade Museum was completed in China Gem City, with a construction area of 8,000 square meters, which is the first large-scale gem and jade museum integrating the popularization of Chinese gem and jade culture, specimen exhibition and jewelry shopping.

In recent years, Changle has made full use of the advantages of resources, policies, talents, technology, and markets, strengthened industry management, and increased cultivation efforts, and the local jewelry industry has developed rapidly, and has also become a resounding brand of economic development in the region.

In order to make the jewelry industry bigger and stronger, and develop towards integrity and brand, since 2002, Changle began to hold the Changle China International Gem Festival, thus attracting more jewelry customers to gather in the gem city.

Before Fan Xingchen came to Changle, the gem festival had been held twice.

This time, Fan Xingchen stayed in Changle for a week and collected more than ten cubic meters of sapphires from the ground.

The density of sapphires is 3.95-4.1 grams / cubic centimeter, the sapphires are stacked together, there are gaps, nevertheless, the volume of sapphires of more than ten cubic meters weighs more than 40 tons.

40 tons, if it is 40 tons of tap water, it is possible that a household uses more water than this figure in a month.

40 tons = 40,000 kilograms = 40 million grams = 200 million carats, if it is 40 tons of gem-quality diamonds, it will definitely make all the jewelers in the world crazy, and the weight of gem-quality diamonds mined in the world every year is less than 20 million carats.

The price of sapphire and Changle sapphire is still in a state of "low price", selling cabbage at a price, despite this, 40 tons of sapphire is still a huge amount of money.

Sapphires, sapphires that cost as much as gold, 40 tons of sapphires, are a lot of assets even for a large jewelry company.

The sapphires that Fan Xingchen collected from the ground with the help of storage space have different weights, different quality, and different prices per gram.

During the Changle period, Fan Xingchen went to the gem city several times, and had an understanding of the current price of sapphires, and he estimated that the wholesale price of the rough sapphires he collected from the underground was about 10 yuan/gram in each market, and 40 million grams of sapphires were worth more than 400 million.

Fan Xingchen clearly remembers that more than ten years later, the price of Changle sapphire is at least ten times more than the current one, and the sapphire rough stone worth 400 million yuan now will be worth more than 5 billion yuan in another ten years.

Although he knew that the price of Changle sapphires would rise sharply in the future, Fan Xingchen did not plan to hold the sapphires for a long time, but wanted to sell some as soon as possible.

In order to make his trip to Changle more reasonable, Fan Xingchen bought more than 500,000 sapphires with his credit card in Gem City, most of which was used to buy cut sapphires, and a small part of the funds were used to buy unprocessed sapphire roughs.

Fan Xingchen visited Gem City for a short time, except for sleeping, most of the rest of the time sat in a taxi, in order to collect more sapphires, he took a taxi to most of the villages where Changle produces sapphires and went around, some inconvenient places, he also paid someone to ride a motorcycle to take him there.

Before leaving Changle, Fan Xingchen secretly took out some large, good-clarity sapphire rough from the storage space and mixed it with the sapphire rough he bought with money, and after returning to Shanghai, Fan Xingchen told the truth about how much money he spent in Changle.

If Fan Xingchen does not have the golden finger of storage space, he will buy sapphires in Changle this time, it is a little difficult to make a profit in the short term, and sell the sapphires he bought to other jewelers, and the possibility of not losing money is very small, and he can mix a part of the sapphire rough collected from the ground with the sapphire rough he bought, in the eyes of others, then he has succeeded and bought a sapphire rough that is worth the money.

There is no need to leave Changle, Fan Xingchen takes a turn in the gem city, and these rough sapphires can be sold for more than 2 million yuan.