●2008 year the beginning of the year, the Chinese stone material Industrial association proposed for the first time the establishment modernization stone material industry, initiated the profession big ponder, the modern stone material industry has become the entire profession a flag.

●2008 year the beginning of the year, the south rare big snow and ice and 5 · 12 Wenchuan big earthquakes, the stone material industry stretches out in abundance aids, gives money generously, earthquake relief work. * the country encourages to use the overseas resources, on May 28, 2008, the State Council Customs tariff Committee had issued “about the adjustment partial commodity import established provisionally the tax rate the notice”, right “the saw or other methods cut the rectangle the marble and the calcareous tuff” carry out 0% imports from June 1, 2008 to establish provisionally the tax rate, soon imports the marble blank to reduce to establishes provisionally zero customs duty, carries out the time is on June 1, 2008 ~ on December 31. * the old base starts industrial upgrading reforming, the emergent industry base vigorous development, on June 13 and on November 18, the Chinese stone material Industrial association awards Hubei Province separately Tongshan County “township of the Chinese marble” with Macheng “township of the Chinese granite” the title. * is small for the solution stone material mine mining existence scale, the technology and the equipment are backward, the mine mining layout is unreasonable, the mining disorders question, on June 16 national Development and Planning Commission issues announced that authorizes Decoration Stone material Open-air Mine Technology standard implements officially in December 1, 2008.

* on September 20, the country quality surveillance Examination Quarantine Bureau issued that about No longer Directly Handles with Enterprise with Product Related Name brand Evaluation Announcement, because possesses the Chinese name brand evaluation exercise including the stone material profession “the powdered milk event” to be compelled to suspend. * on October 27, the national association of industry and commerce stone material industry chamber of commerce completes changes session, Lu An Min was elected as association president, Yanming is elected as secretary general. * on November 9, the Chinese stone material Industrial association in the flood peak convention “the national stone material profession development situation public lecture” on, proposed explicitly for the first time the stone material industry is the industry which in the building materials industry energy consumption is lowest, most conserves energy, obtained the national industry and informationization department related Functional departmentss agreeing. * to deal with the crisis, on November 17, Ministry of Finance, the country Excise office had issued about Commodity Increment duty Export Recovery rates And so on Enhancement the Labor-intensive product Notices, the partial stone material products outlet recovery rate by original 5% enhanced from December 1, 2008 to 9%, partial stone material products outlet recovery rate enhancement. * symbolizes the stone material industry system consummates day by day the national stone material standardization Technical committee and 3 Technical committees give a written reply to a subordinate officially, the national stone material standardization Technical committee is founded on December 5 in Beijing, other 3 Technical committee one after another is also founded, the stone material profession first time has established oneself independent Standardization organization system. * according to the Department concerned statistics, the financial crisis already has the substantive influence to the stone material, the stone material export speed-up for the past ten years for the first time appears postpones. author: Chinese building materials newspaper