The Yangtze River rare stones getting popular

The natural beauty of strange stones has become the new fashion for the people's consumption of material and cultural life. The big size of wonderful and splendid strange stones is seen indispensable in the gardens and city landscapes.

The lobbies and reception halls of a lot of large companies, enterprises, hotels and restaurants are decorated with one or two huge strange stone(s). Some dainty and exquisite tiny strange stones are displayed on the curiosity shelves at home, or worn as the ornaments. Tasting such stones with your heart, you can discover many interesting and dulcet things.

The market will come into being as long as there are demands. The economic values and market of strange stones produced in Sichuan Province are promising. Some products only sold for hundreds or thousands yuan years ago can be sold for over ten thousand or even tens of thousands yuan and even some of them are in short supply. Some suiseki with top-class quality and appearance can be sold for hundreds of thousands yuan or even over one million yuan and the sales proceeds of strange stones every year in whole province will come to tens of millions yuan. Mr. Peng Zhongrong, the secretary of Association for the Advancement of Ornamental Stone Development and Protection of Sichuan Province, told the reporter that at present, the strange stone market of Sichuan Province is generally classified into three categories.

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