市场情报 JNA Mar/Apr 2022 | 47 Diamond and platinum brooch with enamel by Xingguangda Jewelry 星光达珠宝的镶钻珐琅铂金胸针 Several trade developments are supporting China’s return and recovery efforts amid the continued onslaught of Covid-19. These range from strengthening economic fundamentals and consumer sentiment to market expansion initiatives, to name a few. Annual retail sales of gold, silver and jewellery products by major jewellers in China were up 29.8 per cent year on year in 2021 to RMB304.1 billion (around US$47.14 billion), placing this category ahead of other consumer retail market segments, revealed data from the National Bureau of Statistics of China. For jewellers to qualify in the key sampling segment of the study, they must have annual sales of RMB5 million (around US$775,000). This is further indication that China’s retail business is dominated by medium to big-sized jewellers. Glittering imports From the end of the third quarter of 2020 throughout the fourth quarter, diamond trading volume via the Shanghai Diamond Exchange (SDE) witnessed a strong rebound. Imports recovered at an accelerated pace, with monthly net polished diamond imports exceeding US$200 million in September, October and November, and US$191 million in December 2020. The volume of net polished diamond imports through the SDE reached 2.8million carats in 2021, demonstrating a year-on-year uptick of 95.5 per cent. The figure is up 63.7 per cent from pre-Covid 2019. This indicates the strong growth potential and resilience of the Chinese diamond market. By value, net polished imports hit a record high of around US$3 billion, surging 105.3 per cent compared to 2020 and 58 per cent from 2019. The SDE is the only portal in China to import polished diamonds under a zero per cent tariff policy and 4 per cent Value Added Tax, therefore the figure reflects the value of polished diamonds imported for consumption in China. From 2002 to 2021, net polished imports passing through the SDE have grown from US$31 million to about US$3 billion, showing a 94-fold increase and an average compound annual growth rate of 27 per cent. “The historic growth in diamond imports in 2021 proves that the economic fundamentals and underlying factors supporting the long-term development of China’s diamond market remain unchanged and indicates that China’s diamond imports shall sustain waves of growth for a long time to come,” remarked Lin Qiang, vice chairman of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses and president of the SDE. During the Global Gems and Jewelry Development Conference held in January 2022 in Hainan Province, the Gems and Jewelry Trade Association of China Sources: National Bureau of Statistics of China, and Gems and Jewelry Trade Association of China *Key sampling involved jewellers with annual sales of RMB5 million (US$775,000) and above 资料来源：中国国家统计局和中国珠宝玉石首饰行业协会 *重点调查年销售额在500万元人民币(77.5万美元)以上的珠宝商。 China’s jewellery retail sales from 2016 to 2021 in US$ billion 2016至2021年中国珠宝首饰零售额 (单位：以10亿美元计) Year年 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Total amount for select jewellers* 限额以上企业零售总额 45.10 43.97 41.71 37.79 34.44 47.14 Total amount for all jewellers 全部珠宝企业零售总额 78.29 81.42 87.72 88.45 88.41 Not announced/ 未公佈
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