Addressed 2, Minyi street,
built in 1956, it has
a history of 50 years.
It enjoys high reputation
in producing jade up and
other tourist handicrafts.
It has a staff of 58 workers,
32 of them are specific
personnel. It has four
workshops of 3563 square
meters of floor space
and two stores. It produces
80,000 pieces of luminous
cups and other tourist
handicrafts of jade.
Luminous cups are drinking
vessels made of jade.
When the cup is filled
with wine and put under
moon light, it shines
as bright as moon light,
that is why people call
it Luminous Cup. It is
said as early as in Zhou
Dynasty luminous cups
had been presented as
tributes to the court.
Luminous-cup products
produced in Jiuquan are
varied in shape, size
and material. Traditional
luminous cups include
fat-bottomed cups, high-legged
cups and tea-set cups.
Cups in style of the ancient
times are Jue (wine vessel
with three legs and a
loop handle), shang, Gong
(made of horn ) and Zun.
They all look beautiful,
colorful, thin, smooth,
bright and crystal with
natural veins. Wine poured
in these cups seems to
be specially tasty.
Since open of China, the
factory has been one of
the major tourist attractions
in the region. More than
thirty thousand of people
came to visit the factory.
Visitors can see the whole
process of manufacture
in workshop. They bought
a lot of them as souvenirs
and gilts. The cups have
been exported to many
countries as well as Hong
Kong, Macao and Taiwan.
