As a beautiful gift from Mother Earth, a dazzling gem can only decorate our colorful life after a long geological period, mining, refining, screening by human beings and careful design, cutting and carving by craftsmen.
Seeking the real value behind splendor, the preciousness of precious stones lies in their rarity. This is also the case, so since human beings realized the value of gems and entered the market, counterfeiters of gems appeared like ghosts.
Emerald with many cracks is soaked in colored oil as high-quality emerald; An ordinary jadeite is a high-grade jadeite after dissolving some of its substances with acid and then injecting glue. With the development of science and technology, counterfeiters constantly improve the level of counterfeiting. When fake and shoddy jewelry becomes more and more realistic, it also declares that the era of identifying true and false jewelry only by touching, weighing and looking is coming to an end.
An ordinary stone is harmless to people, but a gem can sometimes change the fate of a person or even a family. As one of the major consumers of the global jewelry industry, although China's jewelry industry has achieved rapid development and has a certain scale, under the background of economic globalization, the lack of professionals in jewelry inspection, appraisal and evaluation has become a "bottleneck" to curb the development of China's jewelry industry.
In order to purify China's jewelry market, establish technical criteria for jewelry evaluation, build a scientific and rigorous quantitative evaluation system, and avoid the embarrassing situation of judging only by personal experience, it is necessary to have a group of senior technical talents who are engaged in gem identification, enterprise management, jewelry design, processing and management, and have pioneering and innovative spirit and practical ability.
Jewellery College of China Geo University (Wuhan), as the earliest gemological education and research institution with the largest scale and strength in China, was the first college to introduce the international advanced gemological education system, and one of the only three national gem quality inspectors' pre-examination training stations in China, which was founded in 14. Not only established its own GIC certificate brand, developed many advanced jewelry appraisal instruments for the market, but also trained a large number of professionals for the development of China's jewelry industry.
Bright diamonds symbolize the high quality and low price gemmological instruments and high quality technical services provided by Jewelry Institute. Noble jade represents the professional, authoritative, efficient and high-quality service of the three major jewelry testing centers of Jewelry College; The Tang Dynasty Jewelry Design Center of Jewelry College is like a crystal pearl. As for GIC jewelry vocational education and academic education owned by Jewelry College, it has become an irreplaceable golden key for students all over the world to start a successful life.
Today, China Geo University (Wuhan) Jewelry College is young and full of vitality. Looking back on its establishment, we can see the thoughts, ideas, confidence and determination of Chinese jewelry educators, as well as the rational thinking from history to reality and from reality to the future in the whole process of her continuous development and all-round development.
In the history of Chinese jewelry industry, this is a magnificent blueprint drawn by jewelry educators with their own blood, sweat and wisdom. In the history of Chinese jewelry education, they have written an arduous and exhausting entrepreneurial history with their own blood, sweat and wisdom.
The unpredictable entrepreneurial process and the builder's pride, loneliness, talent, strategy, joy, pain, achievement and reason ... these stories, which are condensed with sweat and wisdom, should be engraved in the history books and truly dedicated to the world. It is precisely because of this entrepreneurial history that a gorgeous hymn of China people breaking through the tight encirclement and creating Chinese jewelry education was performed.
Sailing —— Rise in Dilemma
Time: early 1980s. Venue: Wuhan Airport, Hubei Province. Man: Two Englishmen are carrying big and heavy boxes.
A set of high-end precision testing instruments, two faces too deep to see any emotion, from the moment they stepped into the door of the Gem Research Group of China Geo University (Wuhan), busyness replaced silence. A few days later, their work officially ended and they embarked on a plane back to England.
Soon, in foreign academic journals, a foreign expert in the field of gemstones wrote such a sentence contemptuously in his paper: "There are only two gemstone experts in China." After the publication of this article, there was an uproar abroad. However, in China, the academic response to this was unusually calm, without any waves. It's not that I haven't heard criticism from foreign experts, and I'm not aware of the sarcasm and contempt involved. In fact, the real reason for the silence of domestic academic circles is that foreign experts have hit the dead hole of China's gem industry.
There are no jewelry professionals, no complete jewelry education system, no systematic jewelry research results ... no wonder foreign experts are so eloquent. We can't escape from reality. In fact, the difference between geology and gem specialty was still in a vague stage in the scientific community of China at that time. Although the restored market economy enabled the jewelry industry to start after the reform and opening up, the operation mode and the mastery of jewelry professional knowledge by practitioners and consumers were almost zero, and the gem education in China was even blank at that time.
When everything was in a hurry, it was suddenly hit by foreign academic circles, which undoubtedly made China academic circles both embarrassed and painful. However, whether embarrassed or helpless, we still have to face the situation of poverty soberly. After all, only by developing China people's own gem education can it stand firm and not be despised by foreign academic circles.
No matter how cold winter is, it can't stop the warmth of spring; No matter how poor the soil is, there will always be tenacious seeds taking root and sprouting. Although spring is chilly, the leaders of China Geo University (Wuhan) have keenly grasped the vitality of reform and opening up. In view of the situation at that time, they quickly set up a gem research group in the school, taking the lead in taking the first step in building gem education in China.
China Geo University (Wuhan) in 198 1 has just moved and is in a difficult period. Although the harsh environment makes people sad, the members of the gem research group who were placed in the school museum did not have any negative thoughts because of the poor working conditions and the difficulties of being stretched. On the contrary, the burden and sense of responsibility of developing China's gem industry inspire them almost all the time.
With the strong support of the school, the Gem Research Group keeps up with the development of the times and gradually shows its importance and advantages in the booming tide of the times. Soon, the gem research group was promoted to the gem research room of the school, and later became the gem research institute directly under the school.
The ever-increasing departmental level highlights the importance attached by the academy to gem research, and indirectly reflects China's urgent need for gem education and talents during the social transformation period. 1989, the Gem Research Institute, which has been directly under the Geological University, moved out of the school museum, officially ending the eight-year history of no independent office conditions. It's been a tough eight years. It is these scientists and technicians who first engaged in gem research at the University of Geology. During these eight years, under the condition that the Institute was extremely short of manpower and material resources, they raised more than 20,000 yuan to build the first permanent gem showroom in China, and also offered elective courses for college students and graduate students, held gem training courses, held gemmology conferences, and invited famous experts to teach. ...
Although it is no longer necessary to live in a museum for gem research, it does not mean that the working conditions of the institute have changed fundamentally. In fact, for a long time, all members of the Gem Institute have been working in two dilapidated houses allocated by the school. They are studying colorful and colorful gems, but their own lives are not so bright.
Research is actually a hard work, which not only requires researchers to stay away from utilitarianism and desire, but also requires researchers to have a heart that can withstand loneliness. No one has ever complained about the harsh environment. What is touching is that these early gemmologists are always so focused in their eyes and so calm in their steps. They are actually very ordinary people and don't want to enjoy an easy life. However, they have been studying and perfecting their gemmology projects rigorously, because they clearly know that they are shouldering the heavy responsibility of revitalizing gemmology in China.
Advance-let the borrowed chicken lay its own eggs.
1988 In May, China Geo University (Wuhan) signed a joint school agreement with the Royal Gemological Society, the first gemologist training institution in the world. 1990, the first joint education center opened by British Gemmology Association in Chinese mainland was formally established in China Geo University (Wuhan), which is the first center in the world where British Gemmology Association teaches and tests in Chinese. It can be said that its establishment not only won the recognition of China Geo University (Wuhan) in the international jewelry industry, but also indicates that the gem research in China has entered a high-standard development period.
In fact, long before the arrival of two internationally renowned experts and scholars, the leaders of China Geo University (Wuhan) and the members of Gem Research Institute began to think about how to get rid of the backward situation of jewelry education in China as soon as possible and accelerate the development of jewelry education in China. With the reform of economic system, all walks of life in China have shown a good development trend, and the jewelry industry has also sprung up and developed rapidly. However, the lack of professionals and the low quality of employees often make the jewelry market look shoddy. On the other hand, because there are no professional jewelry technicians in our country, some unscrupulous foreign businessmen use some inferior materials as high-grade and high-quality gem materials for joint ventures under the guise of joint ventures, which directly causes huge economic losses to the state and the collective.
The urgent situation shows that jewelry education in China can't make a rapid breakthrough only by relying on domestic technical strength. After all, domestic jewelry education was still blank at that time, and no university had the ability to carry out jewelry education. If we want to make a breakthrough, we should break the routine and improve the level of jewelry education in China quickly, and then we should focus on foreign research institutions that have made major breakthroughs in the field of gem science research.
After in-depth analysis and careful study, Gem Research Institute finally decided to adopt the school-running policy of "introducing wisdom, making foreign things serve China, laying eggs by borrowing chickens, and running schools with high quality" put forward by Professor Chen Zhonghui, then executive vice president of China Geo University, and began to contact internationally renowned gem education institutions, so as to learn from foreign school-running experience, give full play to the advantages of our school's basic knowledge of geology and gemology, and cultivate China's own teaching staff.
After strict training and examination, the first batch of 10 students of the Joint Education Center all passed the examination and obtained the world-recognized gem course certificate issued by the British Gemmology Association. At this point, the history of only two gem experts in China was finally broken.
Only with far-sightedness can we go faster on the road of development. If the leaders of the University of Geology and the scientific and technological workers of the research institute don't have a pragmatic attitude of "learning without sticking to one pattern", then the gem education in China may still have a long and tortuous road to go. After all, closed thinking and research by groping are obviously not conducive to the exchange and development of science and technology.
It is a great victory for China Geo University (Wuhan) Gemmology Institute to jointly establish an education center with internationally renowned gemmology research institutions to train China people's own gemmology experts. However, compared with the long-term development goal and the advanced level of foreign gem industry, the victory at this time is still only a small progress. The clear positioning played a triumphant song for the development of Gemstone Research Institute of China Geo University (Wuhan). After several years of in-depth cooperation with foreign gemstone research institutions, the college has not only fully accumulated experience in running schools, but also trained its own teachers. At the same time, they have gained a certain popularity at home and abroad.
"Everything is ready, only the east wind." When the dawn of victory dawned and the sun of hope was half smiling, the leaders of China Geo University (Wuhan) and the workers of Gem Research Institute still focused their pragmatic eyes on the development of this major strategy. When the above favorable conditions are ripe, the best time to build a research institute finally comes.
199 1 year1month, with the consent of the school leaders, the report on the establishment of the institute was submitted to the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources of China. After stating a series of development conditions and favorable conditions obtained by Gem Research Institute of China Geo University in recent years, the Ministry of Geology and Minerals gave a quick reply, which was given in 1992.
Only independent innovation is more suitable for China's national conditions and the normal development of gemstone education in China. However, in order to truly achieve greater and longer-term development in the field of gemstones, we must jump out of the shackles of joint education and rely on people for a long time. Although it is conducive to improving one's own strength and level, it is not conducive to creating a broader academic world to some extent.
Rise-Building China people's own certificate brand.
From 1990 to 1993, the Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan) has trained four batches of ***32 students who have obtained the qualification of (FGA) international jewelry appraisers, and they are honored to be international jewelry appraisers trained in Chinese mainland.
Only by passing the "Sandao Pass" of primary examination, theoretical examination and practical examination can we become one of the "elites" in China's jewelry industry, with a solid theoretical foundation and rich practical experience. However, in China, a gem market with huge consumption potential, when the domestic jewelry market enters a period of rapid development, it is obvious that only 32 professional jewelry appraisers are far from meeting the urgent demand for professionals in the jewelry industry. At the same time, many years of educational practice have made Wuhan Jewelry College form a distinctive teaching feature. In the environment of external demand and internal promotion, China Geo University (Wuhan) Jewellery College officially launched GIC Gem Appraiser Qualification Certificate belonging to China people on 1993 on the basis of learning foreign advanced technology and school-running experience, which created a precedent for gem teaching in China.
Once GIC brand was launched, it immediately attracted wide attention from all walks of life. The British Gemmological Association has also expressed great interest in the jewelry certificate of this new brand. They not only sent the teaching director to visit the college, but also brought the teaching materials back to Britain and submitted them to the examination Committee of the British Gemological Association for discussion.
Through unremitting efforts, the excellent teachers, perfect teaching and experimental facilities, strict teaching management and examination system of Jewellery Institute ensured the quality of GIC certificate, which reached international standards in breadth and depth, and was finally officially recognized by the British Gemmological Association. Since then, students who have obtained GIC certificate from Jewelry College can directly take the FGA certificate examination of British Gemmology Association, and the FGA training center in Wuhan has also become a joint training center of FGA and GIC.
China Geo University (Wuhan) Jewelry College was established only one year ago, and it was able to establish its own certificate brand, which was recognized by famous foreign gem research institutions, which is undoubtedly a great leap in the history of gem education in China. As soon as the news came out, major newspapers and magazines in Hong Kong and Taiwan carried out in-depth reports.
Strategy and courage are innate. As the only training center in the Far East where two certificate brands coexist, the reputation of Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan) spread like wildfire. However, in the face of achievements and honors, the leaders of the Jewelry Institute and all the scientific and technological workers are not complacent. On the contrary, apart from running a school on campus, Jewellery College also cooperates extensively with related domestic brother colleges. Joint teaching points have been set up in Qingdao, Nanjing, Beijing and Jiaozuo, Taiwan Province Province, and short diamond training classes and jade classes have been set up in Qingdao, Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai, Jinan, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Wenzhou, Jinhua, Hefei, Shenzhen, Taiyuan, Nanchang, Chengdu, Xi and Kunming, and the number of students in each class has increased from a few to more than a dozen.
The all-round jewelry talent construction strategy has solved the "bottleneck" problem in the development of China's jewelry industry. The Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan) has made great progress while promoting the rapid development of China's jewelry industry.
After 1994, after various preparations, the Jewellery College and the Geology College jointly recruited undergraduates in geology (gem direction), which was the beginning of jewelry education. After several years of practice and unremitting efforts, after studying the trend of jewelry market in detail and constantly adjusting the curriculum, in 2000, with the formal approval of the Ministry of Education, Jewelry College established a market-oriented and future-oriented undergraduate major in gemology and materials technology. In addition to recruiting and training undergraduates in gemology, materials technology and jewelry design, we have also trained higher-level master students and doctoral students in gemology. In addition, the college has trained a large number of high-quality jewelry professionals through adult education and online education, forming a multi-level and wide-ranging jewelry education system.
As a long-term and systematic educational project, introducing talents is only a necessary means to promote scientific development. However, this is not the ultimate goal pursued by the Jewelry Institute. From jointly running a school to independently building a gem institute, from borrowing foreign appraiser brands to building a certificate brand that belongs to Chinese people, behind a series of bold measures is the great wisdom and atmosphere of the pioneers of Chinese jewelry education.
Breakthrough-Win the competition with strength
In 200 1 year, the 28th International Gemmology Congress was held in Spain. The congress spoke highly of the development of gemmology in the world and the great breakthroughs made by various countries in the field of gemmology research. However, the most striking focus of this conference is a China native, that is, Professor Yuan, Dean of Jewelry College of China Geo University.
"We hope that the 29th International Gemmology Congress will be held in China!" When he said such a sincere sentence in fluent English, all the delegates were shocked by Yuan, the dean. Facing President Yuan's application that China Geo University (Wuhan) Jewellery Institute and Hong Kong Jewellery Institute jointly hold the 29th International Gemmology Conference, the members of the organizing committee of the conference had a heated discussion.
"Are they capable of holding such an international conference?" "If China people are allowed to run such a high-standard international society, can they really do it well?" The questions are clearly placed in front of the members of the organizing Committee. However, these doubts were finally rejected by the members. The rapid development of China's economy, the huge jewelry consumer goods market and the outstanding performance of Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan) in the field of gemology research, all these advantages and conditions, like a shot in the arm, made the members of the organizing committee of the Gemstone Congress finally pass the dean's application and set the venue of the Congress in Wuhan, China.
Winning in the fierce competition not only means that the Jewelry College of China Geo University has broken the precedent that the international jewelry conference has never been held in Chinese mainland for many years, but also promoted the growth of China's jewelry industry and the development of China's jewelry research.
Only strength is the proof of success. "Do it or do it well!" Dean Yuan's efforts were not in vain. Under the guidance of the leadership of China Geo University (Wuhan) and with the joint efforts of all the teachers and students of Jewellery College, the 29th International Gemmology Conference was not only successfully held in Wuhan, but also achieved a complete success.
The success of holding such a grand international academic conference shows that the strength of the Jewelry Institute is enough to attract the attention of the world, and it also shows that the Jewelry Institute has been fully integrated into the international jewelry industry. In fact, the reason why we can achieve such great achievements is absolutely inseparable from the long-term efforts of the jewelry institute to carry out scientific research, maintain academic exchanges with domestic and foreign counterparts, and keep pace with world theory and technology.
Over the years, the Jewellery Institute has attached great importance to academic exchanges with the outside world. It has not only sent representatives to attend almost all gem academic exchange conferences in China, such as gem education, scientific research and quality inspection institutions, but also had more frequent academic exchanges and cooperation with scholars from Hong Kong and Taiwan provinces in recent years. In 200 1 and 2003, professors from Jewellery Institute and Qi were invited to give lectures at Singapore Gemstone Association. At the same time, in order to expand international exchanges, the college also invited famous foreign experts and scholars to give lectures and visit in various forms. Up to now, famous scholars from the United States, Britain, Germany, France and other countries 10 have visited the institute in China, including Professor Guberlin and Professor Ichiro Shachuan, who are leading figures and heavyweights in the field of gemology.
The academic exchange has never been interrupted every year. The arrival of experts not only increases the communication between the Jewelry Institute and the outside world, but also injects new knowledge and technology into the educational work of the Institute, and also establishes the influence of the Institute, making the Institute a powerful platform for academic exchanges in China.
In addition, while actively carrying out foreign scientific research and academic exchanges in the field of gemology, Jewellery Research Institute has made important achievements in the research of organic gems such as diamonds, jadeite, colored gems and pearls. Gemmology magazine and gemmology annual meeting held in Wuhan regularly provide an important position for academic exchanges at home and abroad. While completing the heavy teaching tasks, the college teachers have made gratifying progress in the research of diamonds, colored gems and spectroscopy, and completed two national natural science foundation projects.
In 2004, Jewellery College of China Geo University (Wuhan) began to recruit doctoral students in gemology, which is the first doctoral program in gemology in China. Its appearance indicates that Gem College of China Geo University (Wuhan) has embarked on a broader development path.
Jump-a never-ending step
Starting from domestic troubles and foreign invasion, based on foreign advanced level, we began to build our own teaching staff, and then created our own certificate brand, realizing the dream of Chinese people to hold an international gem academic conference. With its growing strength and contribution to the development of the industry, Jewelry College of China Geo University has won the reputation of "the cradle of Chinese jewelry education" and "Whampoa Military Academy in jewelry industry", but its success has never stopped, especially in scientific research.
In recent 20 years, with the increasingly standardized and mature jewelry market, jewelry education has gradually developed and matured, forming a vocational education system suitable for China market. As the earliest pioneer in establishing an educational institution of Jewelry College in China, China Geo University (Wuhan) Jewelry College has been committed to promoting the development of the industry, cultivating jewelry professionals and sparing no effort to open up a bright future for jewelry education in China.
Under the leadership of the new generation jewelry institute, the new generation of researchers in jewelry institute are constantly exploring deeper and broader scientific fields while maintaining the rigorous and pragmatic style of study of their predecessors.
As early as 1992, in order to meet the needs of the jewelry industry and standardize the market operation order of the jewelry industry, the jewelry institute began to build a jewelry quality supervision and inspection station in Hubei Province on a solid foundation, and undertook the jewelry quality inspection work of hundreds of merchants in the province, and inspected nearly10 million pieces every year; 200 1 In order to serve the national jewelry enterprises, the jewelry center of China Geo University (Wuhan) opened a sub-station in Shenzhen. Relying on the developed overseas workstations along the Pearl River Delta, it not only promoted the local jewelry industry to develop in a normal and healthy direction, but also became an effective display window for the jewelry college to build its overall image and excellent college brand.
In addition, in order to further improve the scientific level of jewelry appraisal and create more high-quality jewelry products with high quality and various styles, a group of senior experts in the jewelry institute, as academic leaders, independently developed and produced jewelry appraisal instruments such as conventional instruments and equipment that can track the latest trends in the jewelry market. And a large number of gemmological instruments with leading technology, excellent quality and complete varieties, such as jewelry cathodoluminescence instrument, mirror reflector of infrared spectrometer, automatic diamond cutting analyzer, diamond microscopic marking technology and infrared database of gem materials. The development of these high-tech testing equipment has solved the situation that the testing equipment in China's jewelry industry relies on imports for many years. They not only obtained a number of patents for jewelry identification technology, but also these self-developed machines are more suitable for domestic jewelry product quality inspection institutions and gem teaching.
"If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first." Thanks to these achievements, the painstaking efforts and wisdom of many scientific and technological workers have been condensed, so that China's gem industry has a relatively standardized development environment and formed a highly competitive industry advantage.
Talent is the best resource to enhance competitiveness in 2 1 century. For the Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan), which is committed to the development of jewelry vocational education and academic education, teachers play a leading role in the teaching process, and excellent teachers are also the key to running a high-quality school. As early as the beginning of running a school, the main income of college teaching was used to train and build its own teaching staff. After several years of batch training, the professional level of the college teachers has not only been improved as a whole, but all the teachers on duty have been trained by senior assessors. There are 1 1 people who have obtained FGA certificates, 8 people who have obtained DGA certificates, 13 people who have obtained GIC certificates, and 14 people who have obtained the qualification of national registered inspectors. In addition, the college has many famous experts who are quite influential in the jewelry industry, including 5 professors, 2 associate professors/kloc-0 and 6 lecturers. Four people received doctoral degrees and nine people received master's degrees; Four are studying for a doctorate and three are studying for a master's degree. At this point, a team of teachers with exquisite professional quality, high academic level and dedication has been initially established.
Vocational education in Jewelry College can offer more than ten different types of training courses, including GIC and FGA dual certificate courses, FGA certificate courses, DGA certificate courses, GIC diamond grading practice courses, DGA diamond grading practice courses, GIC diamond theory (correspondence course) courses, jewelry evaluation courses, computer jewelry design courses, jewelry design courses, jewelry making technology courses, gem cutting and grinding technology courses, and national pre-test training courses for jewelry and jade quality inspectors. The vocational education of the college has gradually expanded from gem identification, diamond identification classification and jadeite identification to other majors such as jewelry design and jewelry making. In September, 2002, the Jewelry College of China Geo University (Wuhan) successfully opened the course of jewelry appraisal.
Compared with 14 years ago, today's Jewelry Institute has been newly built as a 4000-square-meter teaching building, equipped with advanced teaching laboratories and scientific research equipment. At the same time, it is equipped with China Geo University Jewelry Testing Center, Hubei Jewelry Quality Supervision and Inspection Station, Wuhan Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Station, modern advanced jewelry education institutions, jewelry trading base, jewelry identification instrument development center, jewelry design and production center and other departments.
Up to now, the Jewelry Institute has trained 288 FAG gemstone appraisers, 56 DGA diamond appraisers/KLOC-0, and 3,092 GIC gemstone appraisers. The trainees are all over the provinces, municipalities and major jewelry companies in China. These senior appraisers have entered China's jewelry education, scientific research, jewelry quality inspection and jewelry enterprises, played a key role and made great contributions to the healthy development of China's jewelry industry.