China's Top Collectors Club Opens Its Doors in Panjiayuan, Beijing

China's Top Collectors Club Opens Its Doors in Panjiayuan, Beijing

January 17, 2007

 
               
    BEIJING, Jan. 17 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Antique
Collectors Club International announced today that the
first premium club that focuses on the collection of
antiques and curios in Beijing has opened.  Given the name
China Antique Collectors Club International, or Panjiayuan
Treasure Hall, the opening ceremony was held in the Great
Hall of the People on January 17, 2006.  

    Attendees of the opening ceremony included national
leaders like Xu Jialu, the Vice Chairman of the Standing
Committee of the National People's Congress and the
Chairman of the Central Committee of the China Association
for Promoting Democracy; Abulaiti Abudurexiti, the Vice
Chairman of CPPCC; and Xue Rongzhe, Chairman of New Jin
Merchants Association, as well as experts and scholars from
the Palace Museum and big names from the world of
collectibles here in China.  The ceremony also welcomed
foreign experts and almost one hundred Chinese and overseas
media. 

    Panjiayuan Treasure Hall is located on the South Road
of the East Third Ring Road, and is in the central belt of
the well-known Beijing Panjiayuan Culture Industries Park. 
With the backing of Panjiayuan Second-Hand Goods Market and
the influence of Beijing Curios City, the Club will develop
the collection of rare and refined articles as its core.  As
the best collectors club and antique dealer, the Club, to
satisfy the increasing demands for collection and
appreciation of rarities, has so far collected valuables
worth more than one billion RMB.  These include an oil
painting by the prestigious painter Liu Enjun bought at a
price of RMB880,000, and which was painted especially for
Suntian Lizi.     

    Panjiayuan Treasure Hall covers an operating area of
5,000 square meters. The members' activities club is
situated on the fifth and sixth floors and now starts to
recruit members.  With its aim to be the most premium and
most environmentally-refined saloon in the capital, and in
China, this chamber can function for parties or
communications among members, for antique identification
and auction, for article exhibition and resale, for
lectures and educational seminars, and for the shooting and
rebroadcast of antique-related TV programs.  Floors through
one to four have been made into collection shops displaying
and selling antiques and artworks, with special sections
exclusively or collectively for porcelain, tablets,
jewelry, jade ware, odd stone, paintings and calligraphies,
craftworks of bamboo, wood, teeth, horns, and more. 
Investment invitations have now been launched to major
specialized players in China and throughout the world.  To
work with the most influential businesses and to create a
new landmark that represents the essential components of
the Panjiayuan collection culture is the vision that the
club possesses.

    To celebrate the opening, China Antique Collectors Club
International will hold the "Exhibition and Sale of
Authentic Works of 100 Contemporary Known Painters" on
January 27.  Collection fans may log on to
http://www.pjyzbg.com for more details.

    About China Antique Collectors Club International

    The founding of the China Antique Collectors Club
International (Panjiayuan Treasure Hall) will not only
cater for collection trends, but it will also meet the
state needs for the development of culture industries.
Currently, Beijing Curios Town and Panjiayuan Second-Hand
Goods Market are the biggest marketplaces for the exchange
of old and second-hand culture articles and the most
important transaction places for curios and craftworks in
Beijing. During the "eleventh five-year plan"
period, the city of Beijing will put forth full effort to
create Panjiayuan Transaction Center for Old and Second
Hand Culture Articles, on the basis of current
marketplaces.  

    Against the present status in the artwork market, China
Antique Collectors Club International (Panjiayuan Treasure
Hall) retains nearly a hundred experts in fields that
include paintings, calligraphies, jewelry, and antiques
etc. With imported TCL identification, modern technology
can guarantee the precise identification and reasonable
pricing of these treasures.  China Antique Collectors Club
International (Panjiayuan Treasure Hall) is trying its best
to become a key transaction site for curios and artworks,
and to become reputed throughout China and the rest of the
world.

    During the opening ceremony, Song Jianwen, Chairman of
Curios Committee of the All-China Federation of Industry
& Commerce; Chen Yangqun, Director of the China Culture
Industry Management Center, and Howell, President of the
U.S. United Commerce Association, delivered speeches
successively.  Unfortunately, the up-scale collections
account for only a minor percentage of the large number of
curio or old article marketplaces in China and in such
markets, collectors and lovers of antiques can hardly
realize their goal to stow and appreciate the rare
articles.  Now, China Antique Collectors Club International
(Panjiayuan Treasure Hall), with its premium positioning and
operation mode, will be the ideal place for the upper-end
collectors. Furthermore, in virtue of the industry mark
Panjiayuan, this treasure saloon will show more advantages
in comparison as the saloon neighbors the Panjiayuan.

    In his speech, Sun Jingsheng, President of the China
Antique Collectors Club International (Panjiayuan Treasure
Hall), said their goal is to build the treasure saloon into
the most influential center, functioning for treasure
exhibitions, transactions, collections, auctions,
identification and program-making.  Although it is under
the help of its location, in this advantageous geographical
position, the treasure saloon is also expected to drive and
move the whole taste and reputation of the Panjiayuan Area.



    For more information, please contact: 

     Mr. Xiaofeng Mu
     Tel:   [phone]
     Email: [e-mail]


SOURCE  China Antique Collectors Club International