The initial development of the mosaic in the country is more than 20 years ago, the glass mosaic, to 10 years ago, the stone mosaic, to 10 years ago, the metal mosaic, to nearly six years ago, shell mosaic, coconut shell, to bark, culture stone, especially in the three five years of mosaic has a qualitative leap.

Previous mosaic is mainly to do the export, from the beginning of 2008, domestic high-end buildings, clubs, villas, including Beijing Olympic Water Cube, the bird's nest use mosaic, so a few years this mosaic is doubled. According to conservative estimates, up to now, the domestic mosaic enterprises should be more than 3000. The mosaic value from the previous year tens of millions of dollars to hundreds of millions of yuan, to the current expected annual output value of more than 500 yuan.

From the relatively concentrated regions of the country, now Foshan Guangdong glass mosaic, ceramic mosaic, Yunfu and Fujian head stone mosaic, glass mosaic Chengdu Jiangsu Zhejiang Shandong Zibo Jingdezhen Jiangxi Sichuan ceramic mosaic, Hainan shell, coconut shell mosaic, etc.. The output of the largest and most concentrated in Foshan, around the mosaic of enterprises are to catch up, a vigorous development trend.

Currently the world's most important mosaic of six state-owned, namely China, Italy, Spain, India, Portugal and Brazil, the six countries mosaic export volume accounted for 90% of total exports. Chinese mosaic in the number of export lead other countries, but the export price is very low, in the export value is still lagging behind in Italy. Inexpensive Chinese mosaic products have been exported to more than 100 countries and regions in the world.

Along with the arrival of the twenty-fourth session of the Foshan ceramic and bath fair, mosaic enterprise naturally also performance more active, becoming one of the main characters of the show. With the previous, concentrated in the mosaic mosaic city in China, China Ceramic City and mosaic Expo Center exhibition area, each enterprise flashed their latest products, welcome customers to visit the exhibition.

Today, mosaic products become more common in family decoration materials, whether it is the bathroom, the background wall, or the building facades, can see the mosaic of the figure. Compared with the whole cast glaze, ceramics and other ceramic products, such as the mosaic more features, such as manual, diverse and spatial characteristics, in addition, more emphasis on the design of the mosaic personality,  pursure of higher grades.