History of Laofengxiang gold and silver fine gold production technology

After the establishment of new China, the government purchased the fixed assets of (Laofengxiang) Silver House, and organized the state-run Shanghai Gold and Silver Jewelry Store, which opened for business in June 1959. In addition to the production and sale of jewelry, inherited the traditional craftsmanship, design and production of gold and silver cameo portrait ornaments and a variety of utensils ornaments, mainly for the supply of institutions and organizations enterprises and institutions. For example, in 1959, the store produced a 9.5-meter-diameter gilt five-pointed sunflower lamp for the Great Hall of the People in Beijing and more than 29,000 pieces of silver tableware. In addition, over the years, it has also undertaken the gilt business for large buildings. For example, the steel tower of Shanghai Sino-Soviet Friendship Building has five-pointed star, the memorial tower of the martyrs of Huaihai Campaign, the chandelier of Jinnah's mausoleum and the memorial tower of Nanchang Uprising on August 1, etc., which were gifted to Pakistan by our country. After the gilt, these large buildings for people to look at and enjoy the added splendor, brilliance and artistic decorative effect.

In 1958, the store was renamed "Shanghai Gold and Silver Jewelry Factory", and in 1962, it was transferred to Shanghai Arts and Crafts Company. And the company was established in 1959 at the end of the "Shanghai Gold and Silver Jewelry Factory" together to become Shanghai's only two production of gold and silver jewelry and ornaments factory. 1970s, the production of a number of contemporary themes such as ornaments "Chairman Mao went to Anyuan", "Xin'an River Hydroelectric Power Station", "the new Anjiang River," "the new Anjiang River Hydroelectric Power Station", "the new Anjiang River Hydroelectric Power Station". "Xin'an River Hydroelectric Power Station", large-scale traditional theme gold ornaments "Danfeng Sunrise" and "Hundred Dragons Playing with Pearls" and other excellent works.Since the mid-1980s, the production of gold and silver ornaments has developed rapidly and started to export in bulk. Since the mid-1980s, the production of gold and silver ornaments has developed rapidly and started to export in large quantities, and the Jewelry Research Institute of Shanghai Arts and Crafts Company established in 1984 has also developed the type of ornaments - jewelry ornaments, and in 1987, Shanghai Universal Ornaments Factory belonging to the company was involved in the production of silver tableware. In this period, many excellent ornaments, some of which reached the level of "treasures". 1988, the company's three factories (Far East, the universe, the Global) a (Jewelry Research Institute) **** production of various types of gold and silver ornaments 2,983,000 yuan, 2,945,000 yuan of exports. 1989 ornaments output value soared to 8,293,000 yuan, all exported. All exports.

In 1998, according to the company law and modern enterprise system set up by the Shanghai Lao Fengxiang has now the company, gathered a large number of Chinese arts and crafts masters, senior arts and crafts masters, senior technicians, and all kinds of professional and technical personnel, in the inheritance and carry forward the basis of excellent traditional crafts, and continue to introduce new ideas, with remarkable achievements.