Hua Jianmin Zhao Qizheng
Hu Wei Wang Ande Wang Yanlai
Liu Xia
Huang Qifan Zhu Xiaoming
Wu Chenglin
SDE: An Imperative of Building
a Financial Factor Market in Line with International Standards / 2 A Review of the Conception Stage of the SDE Project / 15 Shanghai Shining with Diamonds / 25
How the “Diamond” Project Succeed / 37 SDE: From A Pipe Dream to Reality / 51
The Early Conception Phase of the SDE Project / 63
My Involvement in the Conception Phase of and Related Negotiations on the SDE Project as an Employee of the UDI / 74
The Birth of an International Diamond Exchange in Shanghai / 86
An All-Out Sprint: The Two Years’ Efforts before the Establishment of SDE / 99
A Mission Unexpected: Setting up the Diamond Management Agency and Diamond Transaction Platform in China / 111
Born to Shine: Stories of the Development of SDE
Chen Kun
Li Shanfen Yan Nanhai
Willie Yiu
Li Mu
Ren Zhengming
Jiang Yiren Wang Xiaohua
Zhang Wansheng
Bi Lijun
Fang Xiong Yang Xiaoming
Caroline Yuan
Sun Lina Zhang Rong
China National Arts & Crafts Import & Export Corporation and SDE: An Inseparable Bond / 123
The Customs’ Active Involvement in the SDE Project / 135
Witnessing the Negotiations on Establishment of the Sino-foreign Joint Venture / 146
My Dedication to the Chinese Diamond Industry and to My Country / 160
Proud to Participate in the Preparatory Work for the Establishment and Development of the SDE / 169
In Memory of Those Stories Back in the Day / 179
The Most Important Thing Is to Follow International Rules / 190
Three Rounds of Tax Policy Adjustment for the Chinese Diamond Industry / 203
A Great Innovation in Regulating the Diamond Market: “Special Customs Supervision Zone” / 214
Chinese Diamond Identification Institutions and the Emergence of the National Standards for Diamond Identification / 226
Every step of the reform has been difficult / 237
Decision-Making and Construction of the China Diamond Transaction Centre Building / 248
My Involvement in the Preparatory Work for the SDE / 257 The Establishment and Development of the SDE Customs / 268
CONTENTS
Du Huichun
Yu Jiping Jiang Kewei
Lin Qiang
Lawrence Ma Kou Hoi In
Sun Fengmin Ju Xinping
Hu Kanghua Eli Izhakoff Shmuel Schnitzer
Ernie Blom Willy Rotti
Claude Nobels
Cathy Berx
Ludo Van Campenhout
Julien Dryboom
Jiang Jun
The Preparation and Launch of the Kimberley Process Diamond Certification Scheme / 281
The Evolution of Tax Policies for the SDE / 294
Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC): The First Clearing Bank that Entered the SDE / 303
Realizing Win-Win Cooperation Based on Openness, Service, Communications, and Study / 314
A Source of Joy: The SDE’s Development Over the LastTwo Decades / 327
Macau Diamond Exchange: A Classic Case of Macau’s Transformation, Integration, and Development / 339
The SDE: Breathing New Life into the Chinese Jewelry Industry / 351
Staying True to Our Original Aspirations and Working Together for a Bright Future / 360
To Do Our Best to Be a “Concierge” / 372
A Dream Coming True: The Establishment of the SDE / 382
My Unwavering Confidence in the Chinese Diamond Market / 392 Looking Forward to the Next Fifty Years of SDE / 403
Witnessing the Forty Years of Development of the Chinese Diamond Industry / 412
SDE: A Bridge of Exchanges and Cooperation between China and Belgium / 421
Promoting Exchanges Between Sister Cities through Diamonds / 431 HRD and SDE: Towards Strengthened Cooperation / 439
Born to Shine: Stories of the Development of SDE
Shi Lihua
Pan Bin
Wang Haibin
Gao Lei Dror Marom
Abhishek Golecha
Vaibhav Samriya
Mo Jiao Amit Ramesh Mehta
LaoFengXiang and Shanghai Diamond Exchange: Together for a Better Future / 448
Shanghai Diamond Exchange: the Engine of the Chinese Diamond Industry / 457
The First Member of Shanghai Diamond Exchange: Growing Side by Side Amid Uncertainties / 469
My Stories with Diamonds over 24 Years / 480
Shanghai Diamond Exchange in the Eyes of an Israeli Diamond Dealer / 488
KGK on the Way to Shared Prosperity with the Chinese Diamond Industry / 497
So Proud to Call Shanghai “Home” / 506
A Romance with Diamonds in Shanghai / 511
Postscript / 524
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SDE: A Project Midwifed by Pudong’s Development and Opening up
The SDE project would not be possible without the development and opening up of Pudong. The Central Government made the decision to develop Pudong New Area on April 18, 1990 when Premier Li Peng came to Shanghai to officially announce this news. However, it was Mr. Deng Xiaoping who first endorsed the development of Pudong when he was in Shanghai in January that year. He argued that Pudong must not follow the path of the Pearl River Delta by concentrating on such primary labor-intensive processing industries like shoemaking and clothing manufacture. During his following visit to Shanghai, Deng Xiaoping reiterated that finance was important and it was the core of a modern economy. He said that Shanghai used to be a financial hub with free convertibility of foreign currencies and Shanghai should restore its former status in the future. He made it clear that China’s international status in finance hinged on Shanghai.
In retrospect, I think Deng was very far-sighted indeed. At that time, he had the foresight that Pudong should become an international financial hub, an economic and trade center and a high-tech industrial center. Without Deng’s foresight, the objective of “catching up and taking the lead” would be unimaginable for Pudong. As Deng argued, if Shanghai could become an international financial hub, an economic and trade center and a high-tech industry center through development and opening up, it would possibly drive the economic take-off of the Yangtze River Delta and the Yangtze River basin as a whole. General Secretary Xi Jinping’s latest speech on developing the Yangtze River Delta city cluster was consistent with the vision of Deng Xiaoping. That is why I think the origin of SDE should be traced back to the vision of Deng Xiaoping.
After announcing the development plan for Pudong in 1990, Shanghai set in motion building the financial and trade factor markets in line with international standards. The Shanghai Stock Exchange was established and put into operation in December 1990; the Shanghai Metal Exchange, China’s first national futures market, was opened in May 1992; and the China Foreign Exchange Trade Centre (CFETC) was established in Shanghai in April 1994. It should be noted that CFETC was still not a typical foreign exchange center since foreign currency transactions were not yet permitted at the time.