Yongxing silver house

Yongxing silver house

With 50000 taels of silver and dozens of craftsmen, after more than 100 days of closed construction, China's largest silver building has finally made its debut. On July 20, 2008, at the opening ceremony of China Silver Art Museum and the opening ceremony of China silver first square, a national industrial tourism demonstration site, held in Yongxing County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, hundreds of admiring tourists jointly unveiled the "veil" of the silver house's richness and luxury.

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Under the sunlight, the newly built silver building is particularly enchanting. The Silver Tower is built on the basis of the gold tower in Jindu, Japan. The first floor is a column type hollow building with a large gilded tortoise in the middle. On the second floor, there are doors and windows. The second floor of the building is equipped with a mandarin duck chair, which is made of gilt and silver, showing delicacy and luxury. It is unimaginable that the main components of the whole silver building, except the roof tiles, are all decorated and wrapped with silver. Even the hollowed out carvings on the doors and windows are decorated with silver. All the 50000 taels of silver are recycled from waste residue, waste materials and waste liquid from all over the country.

China Baiyin first square covers an area of 40 mu with a total investment of 30 million yuan. The scenic area is divided into three parts: smelting sightseeing area, image display area, tourist shopping area and Taoist activities

The whole scenic area is a traditional Chinese central axis symmetrical garden building, including silver tower, Xinyi hall, zushi hall, original smelting workshop, silver Culture Museum, original workshop exhibition area, thatched cottage cold bamboo and other classic scenic spots. Among them, the silver Culture Museum has an ancient Museum and a modern museum. The ancient Museum collects thousands of years of smelting history of the Chinese nation, displays folk silverware from the Warring States period to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and excavates the smelting culture of Yongxing for more than 300 years. The modern museum displays 19 large-scale smelting enterprises in Yongxing by means of sand table display and illustrations, which is a "no show" for people from all walks of life Silver city with silver mines is the main window of "miracle".

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Chen Fangmin, Secretary of Yongxing County Party committee, said that building "China's first silver building" with pure silver is a major move of "China's silver capital" - Yongxing County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province, to highlight the cultural charm of the silver capital and create new tourism highlights. At the same time, it is also a demonstration to the outside world of Yongxing people's superb skills of turning waste into treasure and using technology to recover gold and silver from the three wastes.

Two lines of life and death

2007

The newly completed Yongxing first "building" -- the "silver building" made of 50000 taels of silver, has caused quite a stir. In all sorts of words, criticism came to my face: "it's nonsense to spend so much money!" "Image project", "achievement project"! On September 4, 2008, the reporter visited Yongxing and got two facts: first, this is enterprise investment, not government investment; second, this has become a major tourist attraction of Yongxing banking factory, and the popularity of "China's silver capital" has been further expanded!

Chen Fangmin, Secretary of the county Party committee, who has just been pushed to the top of the storm by public opinion, said with deep feeling that this is a miniature of the development of Yongxing banking industry in the controversy. The history of Yongxing banking industry is a history of ideological confrontation and concept collision. Without the liberation of ideas, there will be no rise of "China's silver capital"!

As early as the end of Ming Dynasty and the beginning of Qing Dynasty, Yongxing people, unwilling to be poor, went to Nanyang to make a living. They gradually mastered the technology of extracting gold and silver from gold names, jewelry shop floors, dust and hand washing water. The fire of gold and silver smelting began to light in Yongxing village. After the reform and opening up, Yongxing people learned to extract gold and silver from hospital waste, fixing water and film used in photo studio, waste crucible and sewer mud after smelting nonferrous metals, workshop garbage and other wastes. For a time, Yongxing's "three wastes" recycling army shuttled across the country, with smelters all over the county. However, as gold and silver are regulated commodities, Yongxing banking industry is facing a crisis of life and death for a long time. They extracted silver from the waste, but there was no place to sell it. The gold and silver of Yongxing people are often seized or even confiscated by law enforcement departments outside the county and the city, with an average annual amount of more than 3 million yuan.

Can we do it? Yongxing people are at a loss. In terms of the provisions at that time, Yongxing could not do it. However, objectively speaking, the silver in Yongxing is different from that in other places. It is not refined from silver mines, but recycled from waste. Would you rather discard it than make it a social treasure? Yang Chongxi, deputy to the National People's Congress of Chenzhou City, and others put forward to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress "suggestions on solving the problem of recycling gold and silver smelting products with" three wastes "in Yongxing County, Hunan Province". Yongxing County Party committee and county government actively strive for support from the provincial Party committee, provincial government and Changsha Central Branch of the people's Bank of China. Finally, a turn for the better is coming! The main leaders of the provincial Party committee made important instructions, the general office of the people's Bank of China approved and transmitted the proposal of Yang Chongxi and other representatives, and the Changsha Central Branch of the people's Bank of China officially issued a license to deal in gold and silver products to Yongxing County. Later, Yongxing was granted special policies and became the only county with the right to produce and sell "three wastes" gold and silver among more than 2000 counties (cities and districts) in China.

Yongxing banking successfully broke through a life and death line and became the main channel for Yongxing people to get rich through legal diligence. Capital, human resources and other factors of production gathered rapidly, showing unprecedented prosperity. For a time, smelting enterprises were all over 14 of the 25 townships in the county, with a peak value of more than 4000 smelting enterprises (households) and more than 30000 employees. The people's Bank of China purchased 2.4 tons of gold from Yongxing County in 1997 and 19.8 tons of silver in 1996.

One wave has just leveled, another wave has risen again. Yongxing people have encountered problems in environmental protection. In 1999, a smelting environmental pollution accident occurred in Wencun village, Huangni Township, Yongxing County. In 2000, another environmental pollution accident occurred in Maqiao village, Bolin Town, Yongxing County, which destroyed more than 50 mu of farmland and even caused arsenic poisoning among villagers. Relevant departments at higher levels attached great importance to it and ordered it to be severely investigated and dealt with.

Yongxing banking was once again pushed to the brink of full closure. "Small smelting", together with "small chemical industry" and "small papermaking", is one of the "18 small enterprises" officially shut down by the state. More than 100 law enforcement teams have assembled and decided to ban it completely. The day before the departure of the law enforcement department, the people of Yongxing found the person in charge of law enforcement again. Chen Yongxing was forced to recover gold and silver from the "three wastes". It was not easy to develop, and the benefits of development showed his determination to control pollution, and asked to postpone the comprehensive seizure. As a result of law enforcement, a number of small enterprises with serious pollution were investigated and dealt with, while other larger enterprises stopped production for rectification.

Yongxing banking, once again ushered in vitality. Yongxing people have learned from the past and began to strengthen the construction of environmental protection facilities to comprehensively control environmental pollution. Especially since 2006, Yongxing people have seriously implemented the national "energy saving and emission reduction" policy. Smelting enterprises have entered the park, scaled up, closed small plants, deep processing, and invested more in environmental protection, with remarkable results. Yongxing County has gone back to the national circular economy pilot county "gold lettered signboard" awarded by the national development and Reform Commission and other six ministries and commissions. All 113 gold and silver enterprises in the county have gone through the EIA procedures. Yongxing is applying for the national industrial base of recycled silver and rare and precious metal deep processing new materials.

Come to Yongxing, you will have at least two unexpected. One did not expect that the chimneys in other places were straight and the chimneys in Yongxing were curved. The smoke and dust of 10 smelting enterprises in Taihe Industrial Park are all collected through a half person high elbow and purified at a treatment station. The second surprise is that the factory building is actually a tourist attraction. When you enter Xinda silver, you can smell the fragrance of flowers, but you can see the luxuriant grass. Under the guidance of the tour guide, you can see the whole process of silver production. The "Silver Tower" stands in the factory.

In 2007, Yongxing County produced 1910 tons of silver, accounting for 27.3% of the country's total output, and became the largest silver producing area in China for nine consecutive years. Yongxing was officially awarded the title of "silver capital of China" by China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association. From January to August 2007, despite the severe impact of the ice disaster, Yongxing still produced 1000 tons of silver, accounting for two-thirds of the domestic production of recycled silver.

Yongxing strides forward in two ways. What's the point? Jiang Jun, the deputy head of the county in charge of industry, told reporters that it depends on whether you stick to the rules, seek stability and fear chaos, or emancipate the mind and adhere to scientific development. Yongxing people chose the latter.

Will Yongxing bank have a life and death line? Yongxing people said that maybe there will be more. For example, the risk from the market. However, as long as we constantly emancipate our minds and make innovations and changes, Yongxing will not be unable to cross the barrier.

History of development

The silver smelting and finishing enterprise, which has just been established for five years, processes and produces nearly 500 tons of silver annually, accounting for more than a quarter of the annual output of Yongxing silver. With the development of "Xinda" for five years, the enterprise has become bigger and stronger one step a year, mainly due to the attention of the government and the support of the bank.

At that time, in the development process of gold and silver smelting and processing enterprises, the capital bottleneck was particularly prominent. At the beginning of its establishment, Xinda was faced with a shortage of funds of several million yuan. On the issue of loans, the county's financial institutions triggered a debate. Many people believe that the private gold and silver smelting and processing enterprises in Yongxing have a strong future, but there is a great demand for working capital, and they are not very confident about the integrity of such small and medium-sized private enterprises.

Before the founding of Xinda, Cao Shengwen had been in business for many years and had a good reputation abroad, which made the county ICBC determined to sit with him. ICBC sent special personnel to provide financing guidance to Xinda, helping to establish a set of standardized system.

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