Zhenping’s jade carving industry has 120,000 employees, an annual output value of 1.3 billion yuan, and 10,000 processing enterprises (households); Zhenping County has 11 key jade carving towns and 50 jade carving professional villages, forming a The two major professional markets, Shifosi Jade Carving Bay and County Jade Carving World, are the leading industries in the county and the industries that make the people rich. All kinds of jade in the world are processed and sold in the town on average, forming 8 industrial groups focusing on ornaments, jewelry, practical health care and other products, with nearly 5,000 varieties of products.
The Zhenping County Party Committee and the county government have formulated a series of preferential policies to support the development of the jade carving industry, which has achieved remarkable results in the development of the jade carving industry in Zhenping County. In conjunction with the construction of famous cultural towns, Zhenping County has built and expanded 23 professional markets, including Shifosi Town and Chaopi Town, such as Jade Carving Bay Jade Agate Market, Yushuzhuang Jade Bracelet Market, Hezhuang Ornaments Market, and Liangtang Stone Sculpture Market. further expand the market size. At the same time, in order to strengthen the guidance, development and management of the jade cultural industry and improve the level of the jade carving industry in Zhenping County, Zhenping County established China's first jade carving industry administration. Starting from the establishment of industry leaders, the "Zhenping County "Jade God Crafts Co., Ltd." has attracted 10 large companies such as Shengsheng Jade Carving Co., Ltd. and Shifo Temple Jade Factory to join in, and uniformly register the "Jade God" trademark to create an industrial group army. Zhenping jade carvings, as traditional artworks, have been successfully declared as national intangible cultural heritage, and Shifosi Town has been named the Jade Culture Industry Base of Henan Province.
Zhenping has always attached great importance to the improvement of the quality of jade carving practitioners and the cultivation of successor talents. Zhenping County has 2 "Folk Art Masters" named by UNESCO, 6 provincial arts and crafts masters, 35 senior craftsmen, 18 primary training schools, 1 jade carving vocational high school, and county arts and crafts vocational secondary school 1 institute, offering teaching content related to characteristic cultural industries such as sculpture and art design, and training more than 2,500 jade carving creative talents every year. In addition, the county cultural center has been designated as a special training base, and experts and professors from inside and outside the county are regularly invited to give lectures to improve the personnel quality of various private cultural organizations.
In 1993, Zhenping County successfully held the 12th Jade Carving Festival. During the festival, experts and scholars in the jade carving industry from China and even the world gathered in Zhenping to discuss jade carving theories, jade carving techniques, and disseminate jade cultural knowledge, which improved the level and taste of jade culture research; they organized and participated in China's "Tiangong Award" jade carving boutique exhibition The development of activities such as evaluation meetings, jade carving product exhibitions, jade culture seminars, and on-site auctions of award-winning works have heated up the atmosphere for jade culture seminars and promotion, and produced good social effects and economic benefits.
In 2003, China's only "Chinese Jade Culture Center" and China's first Chinese Jade Culture Museum were built. The Chinese Jade Culture Center has a construction area of ??4,000 square meters. Its internal structure consists of three parts: a jade carving boutique exhibition hall, an academic lecture hall, and a jade culture museum. It integrates boutique exhibition and sales, jade carving trade, academic exchanges, and jade culture research, and has modern characteristics. , and contains deep jade cultural heritage, realizing the perfect combination of jade carving culture and architectural function. The Jade Culture Plaza, which complements the Jade Culture Center and is integrated into one, covers an area of ??nearly 100 acres. It is magnificent and has beautiful scenery. It is a good place for entertainment and leisure. The China Jade Culture Museum is located on the second floor of the China Jade Culture Center. It consists of six exhibition areas: the Jade History Corridor, the Jade Workshop, the Jade Grand View, the Master List, the Excellent Pictures, and the Hundred Jade Pictures. The museum has a collection of jade-making tools and ancient jade cultural relics from past dynasties. , modern jade fine products, and jade specimens from all over the world, and vividly reproduces the jade carving processing process in different periods from ancient times to the present in the form of clay sculptures and pictures. It can be called an encyclopedia of Chinese jade culture.