Shanxiahu Town in Zhejiang holds pearl jewelry design contests

A jewelry maker measures the diameter of a pearl at a pearl jewelry company in Shanxiahu Town of Zhuji City, east China's Zhejiang Province, Nov. 14, 2020. Shanxiahu Town is known as the home of pearls, with over 70 percent of its villagers working in pearl related industries. In recent years, Shanxiahu Town keeps holding pearl jewelry design contests, prompting the founding of various workshops and improving the industrial transformation and upgrading. Till October 2020, the town's online sales this year have reached 11.853 billion yuan (about 1.79 billion U.S. dollars), a year-on-year increase of 18.53 percent and the offline sales hit 18.5 billion yuan (about 2.8 billion U.S. dollars), up 7.8 percent year on year. (Xinhua/Weng Xinyang)