There was a clear difference between Taiwan's stone industry and the mainland's stone industry. It seems that the mainland has always had a greater advantage in terms of price, for example.
Taiwan's stone industry began with Hualian big muddy red marble in the 1950s, while in the early 1970s granite began to be imported for international demand. By the 1980s, Taiwan's stone industry had occupied a place on the stage.
As for the economic development of the mainland, Taiwan's media analysis said that it was "overcapacity and oversupply", which is also a realistic statement of the current situation of the industrial economy. This is also a reference for the trend of the stone industry.
According to the report of Taiwan's China Times on October 8, 10 years ago, the same building stone was 2 to 3 times more expensive in the mainland than in Taiwan, but now the price is only half of that in Taiwan.
The reason why the price gap is so large is that some analysts think it is caused by the depression of the mainland property market, but some analysts think it is the situation that in the past, when the mainland stone merchants saw the good consumer market, they desperately hoarded goods, resulting in the situation that they had to cut prices and compete for cash after having too much inventory.
With the development of the mainland economy, the stone merchants in Japan and Taiwan, once the most prosperous, began to be neglected seven or eight years ago, because at that time, the stone merchants in the mainland were rising.
Of course, it should also be noted that, because the stone needed by the mainland stone merchants is not only good in quality, unlike those from Taiwan and Japan, the mainland stone merchants prefer to sweep the upper, middle and lower grade stones, which is naturally more popular with the mine owners. On the other hand, most stone merchants in mainland China are trying their best to borrow money to expand, resulting in excessive inventory. When the housing market is bad, prices will naturally fall.