Ezhou Diamond Cutter Set Sail Again

When the Yangtze River goes straight to the East China Sea and passes Ezhou, a rock protrudes from the bank, and tourists vividly call it "Yanji", from which Yanji town gets its name.

Linjiang town is well known. Since the 1980s, taking advantage of the reform and opening up, Ezhou diamond tool industry started here, and developed into a national well-known diamond tool product manufacturing base and distribution center.

Ezhou Huahu Airport, Asia's first professional cargo hub, opened to traffic in July last year, with Yanji also the main area of the airport.

Home to build a new airport, Ezhou diamond tool industry how to borrow the "machine" this "diamond diamond" polished more bright? Become the industry development of new questions.

On July 17 last year, Ezhou Huahu Airport was completed and opened to traffic, attracting the attention of the whole Internet. Few people would have guessed that the first batch of Ezhou farmers to take to the air 30 years ago came from Yanji, a town in the hinterland of the airport. In 1992, a story about 800 farmers in Yanji selling diamond cutter heads by plane caused a national stir.

Diamond, an isomer of carbon, has been pressurized by graphite and other raw materials at high temperature to become the hardest material found in nature. The cutting tool made of diamond as the main material is known as "the hardest and sharpest industrial teeth", which can be widely used in the cutting, cutting, grinding, cutting, drilling and other fields of metal materials and hard materials.

In the early 1990s, the diamond tool industry gave birth to a number of Yanji "ten thousand Yuan households". In order to seize the market opportunity, some enterprises and individual owners will travel to Wuhan and other places by plane to the country, from the big cities after the plane, and then travel deep in the mountains of the major stone factories, shoulder shoulder carry trafficking knife head.

"It only took seven years from the establishment of the first diamond tool production enterprise to the initial formation of a certain scale." Long Qizhun, president of Ezhou Diamond Industry Association, recalled that the industry witnessed explosive growth in the early stage of development, with a number of factories and family workshops producing diamond tools emerging. Yanji Town became China's "hometown of diamond tools".

"At that time, all the Japanese products were sold for 15,500 yuan. I took similar products in the past and sold them for only 5,500 yuan, which is more cost-effective." In 1991, Long Qijun, a former bricklayer, put down his knife and hired someone to make 10 sets of saw blades for him before moving south to Guangdong. It didn't take long to push Japanese products out of the market.

While occupying the price advantage, Ezhou diamond tool industry also has obvious channel advantage. When the product is in the market, it is also the time when Ezhou diamond tool practitioners scatter all over the world. They invest in factories all over the country and form a number of "Yanji diamond Tool Town" in Guangdong, Fujian, Shandong and other places.

Since February this year, Huahu Airport will open international and domestic cargo routes, Ezhou diamond products overseas market will also be expanded. Walking into the synthetic diamond processing workshop of E Xin Diamond New Material Co., LTD., the machinery is running without stop. The synthetic single crystals of gem-grade diamond are reprocessed and turned into jewelry that goes around the world. Zhang Xinmin, deputy general manager of the company, said that artificial diamonds by carat, the future of aviation logistics, is most suitable.