In terms of the cost of green buildings and developers, the natural stone is indeed not a small impact. First stone as a natural building materials, has the unique nature of color and texture, but also increases the cost and difficulty of building facades. Different ore source or even different batches of stone material will appear color, which for architectural modeling, damage is self-evident. At the same time, the development of modern architecture has become more daring. In addition to theaters, shopping malls and other public buildings, even developers of residential projects, Wailimian also began to try a variety of style and form, traditional shape stone has been unable to meet the rapid construction Wailimian development needs. Coupled with the real estate industry transformation into "deep water area", the balance of cost and quality become the choice of building materials developers focus, many developers to replace type building materials.

In the color, shape and the price of the three major pressure, the stone market is quite obvious atrophy. Stone import and domestic market data also confirms this point. Xiamen Haicang inspection port on July 9, according to statistics, in the first half of 2015, the Bureau received a total inspection of imported stone 4201 batches, weight, 13.036 million tons, the value of $2.54 billion, batch year-on-year decline 21.09%, weight decreased 24.61%, the value of 28.45% decline. The 3568 batches of imported marble stone, 105.12 million tons in weight, the value of $1.99 billion, batch year-on-year declined 23.47%, weight fell 28.70%, the value of 29.93% decline; 633 batches of imported granite stone, 25.24 million tons in weight, the value of $0.55 million, the batch year-on-year decline 4.38%, weight fell 2.94%, the value of 6.86% decline. Haicang port has six consecutive months of declining.