Speaking of jewelry and jade testing institutions, many people's first impression may be the jewelry and jade sales center in the dazzling array of "national xx appraisal center", "in xx inspection institute" and other inspection institutions, these institutions from the name of it is difficult to distinguish who is the real "national brand", who is the side ball Li ghost, the author briefly introduces the current domestic jewelry and jade industry inspection and testing institutions.
(1) National inspection and testing center
The national jewelry and jade inspection agency is a national jewelry and jade professional quality inspection institution approved by the State Administration for Market Regulation and authorized to carry out corresponding inspection work in accordance with the law, such as the National Jewelry and Jade Jewelry Inspection Group, Beijing Guoshou Jewelry Testing, the National Diamond Products Quality Inspection Center, the National Hetian Jade Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Xinjiang) and other national brand inspection institutions. These institutions have passed the measurement certification and CNAS authorization and accreditation of the national product quality supervision and inspection agency, which can be queried on the National Accreditation Commission. The laboratories of these institutions are distributed in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Xi'an, Urumqi and other jewelry and jade processing and sales distribution centers, and are the authoritative institutions in the testing of domestic jewelry and jade products.
National Hetian Jade Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Xinjiang).
The national inspection and testing center carries out all kinds of jewelry and jade and jewelry product inspections for all walks of life, undertakes quality supervision and random inspection, arbitration inspection, and fair inspection issued by management agencies at all levels, carries out inspection and consulting services, and provides jewelry and jade inspection reports for law enforcement units such as supervision commissions at all levels, public security bureaus, procuratorates, courts, customs, and criminal investigation brigades.
The national inspection and testing center has strong technical force, with international advanced and domestic leading jewelry and jade high-end testing equipment, mainly including ICP-MS inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer, laser Raman spectrometer, X-ray powder diffractometer, Fourier transform infrared spectrometer, X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, infrared microscope, super depth of field microscope, ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometer, cathodoluminescence meter, high-power polarizing microscope, etc.
ICP-MS Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Analyzer.
Laser Raman microscopy.
Most of the national inspection and testing centers have a professional and technical testing team composed of high-quality talents such as members of the National Standardization Committee, professor-level senior engineers, senior engineers, national jewelry and jade quality inspectors (CGC), national jewelry and jade quality assessors (CPVG), and members of the British National Gem Association (FGA). At present, most of the testing standards for jewelry and jade used in the industry are drafted and issued by these national inspection centers as the main drafting units. For example, GB T38821-2020 "Hetian Jade Identification and Classification" was drafted by the National Hetian Jade Product Quality Inspection and Testing Center (Xinjiang) as the first drafting unit.
Relying on its own resource advantages, the national inspection and testing center occupies the market highland, directly sets up laboratories at the source of origin and processing and distribution centers, serves the leading enterprises and large enterprises in the industry, and establishes a good image and makes certain contributions to the healthy development of the jewelry and jade industry.
(2) Provincial inspection and testing institutions
This kind of inspection agency is generally located in the provincial capital, for the provincial market supervision and administration or the geology and mining bureau in charge of the inspection agency, such as the provincial product quality inspection institute or rock ore gem and jade product quality inspection station, etc., such institutions are mostly business units.
The provincial inspection and testing institutions have strong technical force, sufficient equipment investment, reasonable personnel ratio, early business time, good market reputation, and rely on the advantages of competent departments to occupy a certain advantage in the local inspection market. The disadvantage is that due to geographical restrictions, limited development space, coupled with the management system and other reasons, it is not flexible enough and the competitive pressure is greater.
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Institute of Product Quality Supervision and Inspection.
Xinjiang Mineral Experimental Research Institute.
(3) Other inspection and testing institutions
Most of the other inspection and testing institutions are private inspection institutions, set up by individual investment, most of the names contain "in the xx" and "national xx", etc., the equipment is simple, the personnel are single, mainly distributed in the jewelry and jade sales distribution center, the business strategy is flexible, small and scattered, mainly through low prices to win customers, cannibalize the retail and low-end market.
The above three types of inspection institutions are the main testing forces in the domestic jewelry and jade inspection industry, serving the jewelry and jade industry, providing valuable quality information to the society, and escorting the healthy development of the jewelry and jade industry. But the problem is that the main business of these types of inspection agencies is to issue product identification certificates, homogeneous competition is serious, so that the inspection agencies fight a big war, some inspection agencies to reduce the inspection standards to win customers, vicious competition, so that the inspection industry has bad money to drive out the phenomenon of good money.
The future of the testing industry is bright, the competition is also fierce, inspection and testing institutions at all levels should start on the development factors of testing technology, testing equipment, professional talents, etc., in order to better provide more competitive products and services, how to win the choice of users is a problem that all testing institutions need to face.
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Article ** in:National Hetian Jade Inspection Center, Author: Liu Sujun