At 14:28 on May 12, in Wenchuan County in Sichuan Province 7.8 earthquake, Chongqing, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hubei, Beijing and other places was felt, and from the epicenter of Sichuan Province and Chongqing Municipality in parts of the extent affected more Large. As highly destructive earthquake, resulting in a number of gas supply, electricity, communication facilities are not work properly, leading many manufacturers are forced to stop production, including ceramics enterprises.

Some ceramics enterprises suspend production. Sichuan Province is an important one of the ceramic-producing areas, so that the earthquake Jiajiang ceramic enterprises in production and daily life has been seriously affected. According to reports, the region's many ceramic enterprises have been cut-off. Sources in Jiajiang new factory director Liu Ying-fang said that the earthquake occurred, a new source of random launched emergency plans, the workers and factories to make a unified arrangements and plans of the current workers normal order of life, but for security reasons , The relevant departments under the unified arrangements, in Jiajiang new source of temporary shutdown of equipment for testing and maintaining unity.

It was also learned that the earthquake occurred, wall tiles and the loss of the injured people were frequent news reports, which triggered the dispute makes a lot of ceramic enterprises headache. Experts said that the earthquake caused the occurrence of such incidents are a number of factors, some because of the non-standard construction, ceramic tile adhesive failure would lead to the loss does not necessarily mean that the whole issue is the quality of ceramic tiles. At the same time, experts advise clients in the choice of ceramic tiles when the products must pay attention to the water absorption, porcelain tile national standards for water absorption is E ¡Ü 0.5%, Ceramic tiles national standards is ¡Ü 10%, so much of the paste Ceramic tiles Weak. As parts of the climate differences, so I chose also need to consider some special factors.