A
diamond lasts forever.
钻石恒久远，一颗永流传
Diamond cuts
diamond强中自有强中手。/ 棋逢对手。
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diamond is a precious stone.
钻石是一种珍贵的石头。
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diamond ring is expensive.
钻石戒指是很贵的。
Shandong Diamond Heavy Industry Machinery Co Ltd, a Chinese excavator manufacturer located in Yucheng, Shandong province, is intensifying efforts to go global further with high-end products.
山东钻石重工机械有限公司是一家位于山东禹城的中国挖掘机制造商，正在加紧努力，以高端产品走向世界。
Currently, in the Central Asia region and Russia, one out of every four wheeled excavators exported from China is manufactured by Diamond Heavy Industry.
目前，在中亚地区和俄罗斯，中国出口的四轮挖掘机中就有一台由钻石重工制造。
Haier, a Diamond Sponsor of the project, the highest level of sponsorship available, was presented with an award at the event in recognition of its support.
海尔是该项目的钻石赞助商，也是目前最高级别的赞助商，在活动中获得了奖项以表彰其支持。
Last month, Huawei also revealed a collaboration with Botswana's Debswana Diamond Co (Pty) Ltd on the world's first 5G smart diamond mine project.
上个月，华为还透露了与博茨瓦纳Debswana钻石有限公司在全球首个5G智能钻石矿项目上的合作。
Debswana's Head of Information Management Molemisi Nelson Sechaba said that the Huawei-enabled smart mine solution has been deployed at Debswana's Jwaneng open-pit diamond mine.
Debswana信息管理主管Molemisi Nelson Sechaba表示，华为支持的智能矿山解决方案已部署在Debswana的Jwaneng露天钻石矿。
The Jwaneng mine is the world's first 5G-oriented smart diamond mine, which means the hardware equipment such as base stations used in the mine's digital transformation support network has upgraded to 5G, Huawei said.
华为表示，Jwaneng矿是世界上第一个面向5G的智能钻石矿，这意味着该矿数字化转型支持网络中使用的基站等硬件设备已升级为5G。
Last year, Silver Fern Farms was awarded New Zealand's highest local environmental certification, the Toitū Enviromark Diamond Certification.
去年，银蕨农场获得了新西兰当地最高的环境认证，即ToitúEnviromark钻石认证。
A 34-carat portrait diamond, the largest known portrait diamond in the world, is also on display.
一颗34克拉的肖像钻石也在展出，这是世界上已知的最大的肖像钻石。
The boutique is also equipped with the patented De Beers Iris, which offers professional appreciation services for CDFG customers to see the true brightness of natural diamonds from the perspective of diamond experts through Iris.
精品店还配备了获得专利的戴比尔斯虹膜，为CDFG客户提供专业的鉴赏服务，通过虹膜从钻石专家的角度看到天然钻石的真实亮度。
This boutique of De Beers Jewellers enables jewelry lovers to enter the splendid world of the diamond master by exploring classic series works, appreciating natural diamonds, and experiencing its over 130 years of diamond expertise.
戴比尔斯珠宝商的这家精品店让珠宝爱好者通过探索经典系列作品，欣赏天然钻石，体验其130多年的钻石专业知识，进入钻石大师的灿烂世界。
According to reports, De Beers diamond experts hand-pick the world's most magnificent natural diamonds one by one, and then interpret the aesthetics and dauntless ideas of De Beers' high-grade jewelry with rich diamond shapes, diamond cutting and artistic ideals where beauty comes first.
据介绍，戴比尔斯钻石专家将世界上最华丽的天然钻石一一手工挑选，以丰富的钻石造型、钻石切割和美丽至上的艺术理想，诠释戴比尔斯高级珠宝的美学和大无畏理念。
From the classic Enchanted Lotus and Dewdrop series, to the unique Talisman series composed of polished diamond and unpolished rough diamond, to the Wedding jewelry series, each diamond jewelry piece embodies its exquisite skills.
从经典的迷彩莲花和露珠系列，到由抛光钻石和未抛光毛坯钻石组成的独特Talisman系列，再到婚礼珠宝系列，每一件钻石珠宝都体现了其精湛的技艺。
Among them, For You and Forever personalized engagement diamond ring customization service enables customers to choose their favorite diamond, design and embedding methods to create their own dream diamond rings.
其中，For You and Forever个性化订婚钻戒定制服务使客户能够选择自己喜欢的钻石，设计和镶嵌方法，打造自己的梦想钻戒。
In the meantime, customized engraving service makes it possible to engrave designated names or special anniversaries on diamond rings or wedding rings to highlight their distinctive meaning.
同时，定制雕刻服务可以在钻戒或结婚戒指上雕刻指定的名字或特殊的周年纪念日，以突出其独特的意义。
That year, Swarovski launched Diama, its first lab-grown diamond line, specializing in jewelry with white synthetic diamonds, indicating a shift for the company that has traditionally sold diamond simulants.
那一年，施华洛世奇推出了Diama，这是其第一个实验室培育的钻石系列，专门生产白色合成钻石珠宝，这表明这家传统上销售钻石仿制品的公司发生了转变。
"Another company, Lusix, an Israeli lab-grown diamond brand, recently received its first infusion of investment－$45 million from two Israeli companies, Ragnar and More Investment House.
“另一家公司，以色列实验室培育的钻石品牌Lusix，最近从两家以色列公司Ragnar和More investment House获得了4500万美元的第一笔投资。
At the same time, sales of natural diamonds have boomed as the global economy recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and more people are buying diamond jewelry.
与此同时，随着全球经济从新冠肺炎疫情中复苏，越来越多的人购买钻石首饰，天然钻石的销售蓬勃发展。
Last year, global diamond mining and retail operator De Beers, based in South Africa, and Russia-based Alrosa said they saw their sales of rough diamonds－those that haven't been cut, processed and polished－surge significantly.
去年，总部位于南非的全球钻石开采和零售运营商戴比尔斯和总部位于俄罗斯的Alrosa表示，他们看到未经切割、加工和抛光的毛坯钻石销量大幅飙升。
The two giants together accounted for more than a 60 percent share of the global rough diamond market, industry reports said.
业内报道称，这两家巨头合计占据了全球毛坯钻石市场60%以上的份额。
"Last year, sales and volumes of rough diamonds rose due to strong demand for finished diamond products downstream.
“去年，由于下游对成品钻石的强劲需求，毛坯钻石的销量和数量都有所上升。
French luxury jewelry brand Korloff will make its debut at the third China International Import Expo to be held in Shanghai in early November, displaying its signature 88-carat black diamond.
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A Diamond DA42 series aircraft, which was jointly produced by Chinese and Austrian companies.
The airplanes, from the Diamond DA42 series, were manufactured by China Electronic Technology (Group) Co's Wuhu-based plant with technology from the Austrian firm Diamond Aircraft Industries Inc.
The airplanes, the first three among more than 30 ordered, went to a pilot school and a private aviation company, according to Ping Lihao, president of CETC Wuhu Diamond Aircraft Manufacture Co Ltd.
Jointly invested in by CETC and the Wuhu municipal government, the plant will also be allowed to produce the Diamond's DA20 series soon, according to Ping.
Hong Yuning, deputy general manager of Wuhu Diamond, said 97 percent of the aircraft's body is made of carbon-fiber material, which makes the plane more reliable and economic.
"In the near future, all of Diamond's DA42 and DA20 aircraft will be made by our company", said Hong.
"Currently, 12 of China's 20 civil aviation pilot schools are using Diamond DA42 aircraft as their training aircraft, and in the future, 90 percent of the schools will be doing so", said Hong.
Shandong Diamond Heavy Industry Machinery Co Ltd, a Yucheng, Shandong province-based excavator manufacturer, has been heading in that direction.
Zhi Fu Holding Group from Guangdong province has invested 2 billion yuan to build a hotel and a gold, diamond and jade trade center in Kashgar.
China-ASEAN cooperation has evolved from the past "golden decade" to a "diamond decade", and then to a new decade "crowned with diamond inlay".
China-ASEAN cooperation has ushered from the past "golden decade", to a "diamond decade", and then flowing into a new decade that is "crowned with diamond inlay".
"Our 'black diamond' pineapple from the Philippines received a huge amount of exposure at last year's CIIE, the sales of the pineapple can reach 500,000-700,000 units a month via fresh food retailer Hema", said Xu Ke, marketing director at Goodfarmer Foods Holding (Group) Co Ltd.
In August 2022, the United States Department of Commerce announced export controls on gallium oxide and diamond, because "devices that utilize these materials have significantly increased military potential".
During this year's Spring Festival holiday, a Chinese couple visited his store in Shanghai, and the husband chose a ring with a 3-carat yellow diamond priced at 220,000 yuan ($34,839), Chaudhry said.
Last year, the hub set up a direct sales joint venture in China with Caprice Diamonds, Israel's largest diamond retailer.
A 1,000-square-meter diamond distribution center was unveiled at the hub last September, to directly sell the 1-to 12-carat diamonds inlaid by Israeli craftsmen on-site.
During the May 5 Shopping Festival launched in Shanghai earlier this year, sales revenue at the diamond sales center exceeded 25 million yuan ($3.7 million), with more than 110 1-carat bare diamonds sold during the period.
That's what 30-year-old Li Fan was thinking when his fiancee was choosing between an $8,000 1-carat diamond mined from somewhere in Africa and a $700 counterpart grown from a lab in Henan province.
"Whether it be a diamond, a precious metal or a more affordable choice, it appears that you need something to symbolize your commitment to love," he said.
In 2019, a lab at the Chinese Academy of Sciences successfully cultivated a gem-level lab-grown diamond and promoted the techniques to companies in Zhecheng county, Henan — a place known for the production of ultra-hard materials including diamonds.
In September 2021, Henan Liliang Diamond debuted on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, followed by Huifeng Diamond on the Beijing Stock Exchange in July 2022.
Sun Ruomei, director of the management committee of Zhecheng's high-tech industrial development zone, said the zone is home to over 110 diamond producing companies with an annual output of 5 billion carats of monocrystalline diamond, among which 4 million carats are gem-level lab-grown diamonds.
By July of this year, about 95 percent of the global production of lab-grown diamonds, also known as synthetic diamonds, came from China, with 80 percent of them produced in Henan, said Sun Zhaoda, secretary-general of the Superhard Material (Industrial Diamond) Association of China.
Competition from India, the global hub for mined diamond polishing, is also getting fiercer as the country ramps up production of gem-level lab-grown diamonds.
Zhang Dong, head of Sichuan province-based lab-grown diamond business Dofe Story, said currently, there's a market trend that India is gradually increasing imports of raw gem-level lab-grown diamonds and transferring its investment and labor force to lab-grown diamonds from mined gems.
"Last year, a 1-carat round lab-grown diamond, classified by the International Gemological Institute as color D or E, VVS in clarity and 3EX in cut, which is close to the highest level of quality, could be sold for around 10,000 yuan ($1,400).
In October, a gem of such quality was only priced at around 2,000 yuan in our store in Tangyin county," said Chang Yuan, head of a gem-level lab-grown diamond store in Tangyin county, Anyang, Henan.
Take a 1-carat round diamond classified as D or E color, VVS, and 3EX as an example, the raw diamond costs around 600-700 yuan, polishing for another 600-700 yuan, and there are certification fees, whether it's from IGI or Gemological Institute of America, it costs around 700 yuan," he said.
Plenty of traders from India, the United Arab Emirates and the US came to us for raw diamond purchases on a large scale," Chang said.
Gem-level lab-grown diamond businesses of much larger sizes are also affected.
In the first half of this year, a top-tier lab-grown diamond producer, Liliang Diamond, revealed a 27.95 percent year-on-year profit decline to 172 million yuan.
The second largest lab-grown diamond producer in the US, M7D Corporation, which trades as WD Lab Grown Diamonds, filed for bankruptcy in October.
Tang Huan, managing a recycling store in Shenzhen's jewelry hub Shuibei in Guangdong province, said a mined diamond that weighs around 1 carat, F in color and VVS in clarity with a GIA certificate, is priced around 20,000 yuan to 40,000 yuan for recycling, while buyers may pay three times the price, or even higher depending on the brand, to buy a diamond of similar quality.
The 12 benchmark activities will include global new product debuts, nightlife festival, arts season, green consumption, automotive consumption carnival, imported products shopping festival, digital life festival, coffee culture week, global food festival, diamond and jewelry culture festival, sports consumption festival, and more.
The combination of the two fairs — the 39th Hong Kong International Jewellery Show and the 9th Hong Kong International Diamond, Gem & Pearl Show — is the largest such event in Asia.
Central China's Henan province burnishes sterling reputation as center for cutting and polishing synthetic sparklersZhecheng, a small city in Henan province, is often called China's diamond capital, even though the province doesn't have any natural diamond deposits.
In recent years, the city has further developed its lab-grown diamond manufacturing sector, fueled by a strong demand for diamond jewelry from Chinese consumers.
The world's current proven natural diamond reserves are about 2.5 billion carats, which are nonrenewable and difficult to mine, according to China Geological Survey.
In 2020, the global output came in at 111 million carats, according to Antwerp World Diamond Center.
In China, diamond rings are in high demand among Chinese couples' engagements.
Diamond jewelry such as necklaces and bracelets also remains popular, especially as a greater variety of stylish designs has emerged.
Given the scarcity of natural diamond deposits in China, most of which are not of high enough quality for use in jewelry, the country has been relying almost completely on importing natural rough diamonds.
Zhecheng's production of diamond micron powder－an ultra-fine abrasive made with artificial diamonds used for grinding and polishing hard materials like gemstones－makes up 70 percent of the nation's output and 50 percent of export volume of the substance, according to the local government.
"Lab-grown diamonds possess all of the essential qualities of natural diamonds, only their origin is a laboratory instead of earth," said Zhu Guangyu, a senior analyst of the diamond industry.
With the availability of a group of mature domestic manufacturers of synthetic diamonds, domestic retail brands are able to develop their business in the lab-grown diamond sector, Bain & Co said.
Among them are some major manufacturers listed on stock exchanges, including Henan Huanghe Whirlwind Co Ltd, Zhongnan Diamond Co Ltd, Sino Crystal and Henan Liliang Diamond Co Ltd. Henan Liliang Diamond, a manufacturer of premium synthetic diamonds in China, invested 3.8 billion yuan in building its factory in Zhecheng.
The company went public on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in September, becoming the fourth listed lab-grown diamond maker in Henan.
On Sept 24, the first day of trading of Liliang Diamond, its shares opened with an issue price of 20.62 yuan per share, and closed at 229.38 yuan per share, some 11 times higher than the opening price.
The technological development of lab-grown diamond manufacturing has made big strides in terms of equipment and methodology.
Diamonds were first grown in laboratories using High Pressure High Temperature systems that used extreme heat and high pressure and a small bit of diamond "seed" to grow graphite into diamonds.
Liliang Diamond said the weight of a single portion of the lab-grown diamonds it produces could exceed 30 carats, which is a sign of the innovation ability of the company.
Domestic diamond suppliers and brands have seen growing demand for synthetic diamonds.
Chinese synthetic diamond manufacturers, however, can produce large quantities of semifinished diamonds of between three and six carats, which can then be made into diamonds for jewelry of one to two carats.
The occupation was also identified as the emerging "Diamond Profession" for its potential for high earnings.
The head of the Natural Diamond Council, a global trade group, sees China continuing to drive the world's diamond consumption on the back of its strong economic growth despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Other factors that will stoke diamond consumption are China's rising middle-income shoppers and the emotionally more expressive younger generation of consumers who give gifts and have mastered the art of treating themselves well or tastefully, without being indulgent or crass.
The country's GDP growth of 12.7 percent in the first half of this year "formed a solid foundation for growth" for the diamond industry, said David Kellie, CEO of the NDC.
He forecast the diamond market to exhibit an optimistic V-shape recovery, meaning the global diamond jewelry is expected to reach the pre-pandemic level of 2019 in 2022 to 2023.
As the world's second-largest diamond market after the United States, China's branded jewelry accounted for 15 percent of the entire market, reaching $100 billion in value, dispelling global economic uncertainties.
Kellie identified the super large size of the middle-income group in China, and the COVID-related cross-border travel restrictions as critical drivers of diamond consumption growth in the Chinese market.
"Kellie said the collaboration is in alignment with the council's overall strategy to promote the emotional value of the diamond, share the narratives on diamonds through social media channels, and partner with top jewelry retailers around the world.
According to data from the Shanghai Diamond Exchange, transaction value reached $3.82 billion in the first six months of this year, up more than 86 percent from the pre-pandemic level in the same period of 2019.
The exchange predicted China's diamond imports this year will surpass the previous record of $2.78 billion in 2018.
Lin Qiang, president of the SDE, attributed the strong rebound in diamond imports to "the quick recovery of the China's economy, specifically the release of consumption power (that was) restrained by the pandemic, and appreciation of the yuan, which offset the increase in diamond price in US dollar terms".
Another reason for the rebound in diamond consumption in China is the expanding Generation Z population who ascribe different values to diamonds and use more digital platforms to understand the products they buy.
The value of diamonds imported through the general trade of the Shanghai Diamond Exchange (SDE) reached a record high in the first half of the year, Shanghai Customs announced Friday.
The diamond imports registered a hefty bounce in the first half of 2021, totaling 10.5 billion yuan ($1.6 billion), four times over the same period of last year and an increase of 45.3 percent over the same period of 2019.
The global diamond market has been hard hit by the COVID-19 pandemic.
However, China's effective control of the outbreak since last year has contributed to stabilizing the diamond market, as manifested by the booming trade through SDE, according to the exchange.
Organized by the association, the National Gemstone Testing Center and the Shanghai Diamond Exchange, the forum, aimed at finding a way to boost China's role in the global jewelry industry, was attended by entrepreneurs, experts and scholars.
Global diamond conglomerate, De Beers Group on Saturday announced that most retail diamond stores are open in China as the populous Asian country has eased its lockdown.
Paul Rowley, the De Beers' executive vice president of diamond trading, said while lockdowns are now beginning to ease in some countries, a return to normal activity appears some way off, as other countries have yet to see a peak and concerns of further waves of infection persist.
Following a positive start of the year, the global impact of the deadly COVID-19 and the subsequent restrictions on the movement of both people and goods has had a major impact on wholesale demand for both rough and polished diamonds and consumer demand for diamond jewellery, said Rowley.
The Diamond Princess, a ship of Princess Cruises, was anchored in quarantine off Yokohama port, a city south of Tokyo, last week due to some passengers getting infected.
"With that vary large market, you know how important music is and it is growing," said Losby, who was on a promotion tour to San Francisco this week with famous Chinese pianist Lang Lang to attend a private event aiming to market the company's limited edition Black Diamond Steinway & Sons piano.
For someone wearing a $8,000 diamond ring, color, clarity, cut and carat are what make the gem stone valuable.
China's leading lab-grown diamond makers, whose combined production takes up about 90 percent of the world's total, are stepping up research efforts by cooperating with research institutions to develop lab-grown diamonds as semiconductor materials, experts said.
"Many leading lab-grown diamond producers in China are working to tackle technical problems in the field, such as the ability to make a p-n junction in diamond, with tech support from academies and institutes," said Zhang Zengqi, secretary head of Shandong Mining Association.