8月9日，一名顧客在浙江省諸暨市山下湖鎮(zhèn)的華東國際珠寶城選購珍珠耳飾。山下湖鎮(zhèn)位于浙江省諸暨市，被譽為“中國珍珠之都”，是集珍珠養(yǎng)殖、加工、交易及文旅體驗為一體的特色小鎮(zhèn)。多年來，山下湖鎮(zhèn)通過科技創(chuàng)新實現(xiàn)珍珠產(chǎn)業(yè)的生態(tài)養(yǎng)殖與綠色發(fā)展，成為全國乃至全球最大的珍珠貿(mào)易中心、淡水珍珠引領中心和數(shù)字珠寶交易平臺，珍珠交易量占全國市場的80%。小小珍珠“串”起美麗經(jīng)濟，帶動小鎮(zhèn)居民實現(xiàn)增收致富。[新華社記者 毛竹 攝]

A customer selects pearl earrings at a trading center for jewelry products in Shanxiahu Town, Zhuji City of east China's Zhejiang Province, Aug. 9, 2025. Shanxiahu Town of Zhejiang Province is renowned for its pearl industry that ranges from pearl farming, processing, trading to cultural tourism. Shanxiahu has embraced technological innovations in recent years to boost eco-friendly pearl farming as well as green development. This town now serves as a leading pearl trading center and online jewelry trading platform in China, handling 80% of pearl trading volume in the country, and the business in "beauty economy" has also handsomely improved household revenues here. (Xinhua/Mao Zhu)