General Administration of the Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of
the People's Republic of China

In 1983China University of Geosciences, the CUG (Wuhan) established Gem Institute and in 1989 developed the school 2nd grade Gem Institute. In 1992, it was approved by the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources (the first domestic) Jewelry Institute. In 1993 it established Jewelry Testing Center. The Center serves the society mainly in appraisal, consulting, training, exhibition, production and processing. The Center trained over tens thousands of technical backbone and thousands of senior technical appraisers for jewelry quality inspection institutions across the country, production and processing and wholesale units. It is referred to as the "cradle of treasure teaching” at home and abroad. Each year the Center identifies and consults hundreds of thousands of pieces of jade jewelry for the society. The Center has 17 technical staff, including 12 senior staff, 2 intermediates,
3 junior staff. Seven received The Gemological Association of Great Britain FGA certificate, seven received Diamond Member of the Gemological Association DGA certificate, one received The Gemological Association Of Germany FGG Certificate, and 14 received National Registration examiner certificate. The Center has modern testing equipment imported from the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain and other countries, such as large-scale X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy,
UV-Vis spectrophotometer etc., a total of 36 pieces (sets), and worth about 3 million yuan. The University closely cooperates with Analysis and Testing Center has nearly US$ 3 million large sophisticated testing equipment available for use.

Jewelry Testing Center is an open society-oriented entities, and its main tasks are:
1. Take the jewelry inspection commissioned by the community.
2. Take diamond grading evaluation commissioned by the community.
3. Bear the arbitration and test fairly.
4. Commitment to the Quality Supervision commissioned by higher authorities and random inspection.
5 National jewelry practitioner and jewelry staff’s jobs access training.

Jewelry Testing Center, in addition to provide inspection services for the community, but also completed a number of national, provincial and ministerial research projects. The Center also provides advisory services for the construction of the national quality inspection organizations and the inspection work. We establish a wide range of business communication with Hong Kong, Thailand, the United States, Britain, Singapore, Switzerland, Japan, Taiwan and other countries and regions’ main inspection agencies. Every year we held regularly academic meeting, visits and exchange of learning. From 1995 the Center has passed Beijing Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision of the Metrology Accreditation (CMA), National Laboratories recognition (CNAL) and the Hubei Bureau of Quality and Technical Supervision Authority’s assessment (CAL), and Wuhan Bureau of the Quality’s Technical Supervision. In accordance with the provisions of the Product Quality Law, the Center's test results are the final ruling for jewelry inspection and diamond grade evaluation of Hubei Province.