China's jewelry industry originated in Shanghai. According to the data, the first jewelry store in China was Rifeng Jinpu, which was founded in 1644 (the last year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty) and located in Huating (now Songjiang). Unlike the silverware workshop in Guangzhou, the silverware shop is an integration of industry and trade, with the front shop and the back factory. The silverware workshops in Guangzhou are mainly manufacturing, and the sales are undertaken by foreign firms.
The most developed jewelry industry in modern China is Shanghai. From the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, Shanghai's jewelry industry flourished, reaching hundreds at most. After the founding of New China, silver shops tended to die out after being controlled by the state. By May, 195 1, 160 silver shops had jumped ship or closed down.
1896, the mainstream jewelry store in Shanghai first established the first jewelry store trade association in China-"Tongyi Group", and established a jewelry store in Huatuan Street, Dadongmen, Shinan, which standardized the operation of the jewelry store industry at that time and stipulated that each jewelry store could open up to three semicolons in Shanghai. For example, the famous Lao Fengxiang, formerly known as Fengxiang Jewelry House, has semicolons such as "Kidd" and "Yuji". 1926 "Synonymous Group" was reorganized and renamed as "Great Peer". Jewelry shops in the same trade have mutual recognition of product quality and unified format of money.
Tianjin is another developed city of modern jewelry industry in China, second only to Shanghai.
The development of silver construction industry promoted the development of modern urban economy in China. In the early years of the Republic of China, the economic scale of the silver building industry accounted for more than 5% of the city's total industrial and commercial income.
The famous silver houses in Shanghai are: Yang Qinghe (1773- 1935), Qiu Tianbao, Fengxiang (1852), Fang Jiuxia, Fang Tianbao, Fei, Qing Fuxing, Jingfu, Hengfu, Baocheng and Qingyun.
The three most famous jewelry houses in Tianjin are Hengli, Wuhua and Tianbao.
Highlights of local jewelry stores:
Beijing: Baohengxiang, Tianbao, Zhicheng, Wuhua, Taishan and Sanyang.
Nanjing: Baoqing.
Suzhou: Hengfu (1828)
Ningbo: Fang Juyuan and Fang Zijin
Shenyang: Cuihua (the most famous jewelry store in Northeast China)
Dalian: Wanbao
Chengdu: Li Sheng
Hankou: Zou, Lao and Xin Fengxiang.
Jiujiang: Tu Maoxing, Tu Qingyun, Zou Shunxing
Tangshan: Renaissance
Guilin: Tonghua
Yantai: Wenhua and Yutai
Weihai: Taihua