During the period of 1955, gold foil forging changed the traditional family workshop mode, and Jiangning gold foil brocade factory was established with the approval of China People's Bank, and mass production began. 1983, the once-in-a-century Yangtze River flood engulfed Jiangning Gold Foil Factory in Huayuan Township, Jiangning County, and moved it from Longtan Chrysanthemum Factory to Dongshan Street, Jiangning District. Gold foil artists have been relegated to other professions, and there is no successor to gold foil forging skills. The key backing paper of gold foil was almost cut off, and the gold foil technology was even lost. From 65438 to 0984, China's reform and opening-up began to enter a good development period. The restoration of temples, ancient buildings and modern high-rise buildings all over the country has greatly increased the demand for gold foil. 1984, the thirty-fifth anniversary of the founding of new China, the state decided to overhaul Tiananmen Square, which required 400,000 pieces of "98" gold foil, and reached Jiangning Gold Foil Factory under the task. In 2000, Nanjing Gold Foil Group Co., Ltd. was established after enterprise restructuring, which concentrated 70% of the national gold foil production and 60% of the world's gold foil production, becoming the world's largest real gold foil production base. Nanjing Gold Foil Group invested 60 million yuan to build China Gold Foil Art Museum.

In 2006, in the State Council, the name declared by Qixia District Cultural Bureau was changed from "gold thread and gold foil making skills" to "gold foil forging skills". According to the explanation of Mr. Xu, a national intangible cultural heritage judge, it is reported that Japan is also declaring the traditional gold foil making technology to the United Nations as the world intangible cultural heritage. Therefore, we must first seize the title of "gold foil forging" and gain international recognition of the origin of gold foil forging. In 2006, Ge Yigen, a handcrafted foil maker in Nanjing Golden Line Gold Foil General Factory, was approved by the Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center as the representative inheritor of Nanjing gold foil forging skills. Other municipal inheritors of Nanjing gold foil forging technology include Wang Lungui, Ge and Yu Ping. There are real gold thread making skills, such as municipal inheritors Zong, Ge Yixiu and Wang Cheng. The last process of gold foil processing is foil cutting, which is irreplaceable by machinery today. Because women's movements are relatively light, this process is completely completed by the female workers of Nanjing Jinxian Gold Foil General Factory. Yu Ping, a new generation of non-genetic inheritor, has been in business for more than 20 years. She can cut thousands of gold foils at the fastest speed every day.

Nanjing gold foil is widely used. Traditional bronzing technology is mainly used to decorate palaces, temples and their furnishings and utensils. The most famous palaces in the world, such as the Forbidden City, the White House, the Palace of Versailles, Buckingham Palace, the Kremlin, the Potala Palace in Tibet, the Shaolin Temple in Henan, the China Hotel in Moscow, the Imperial Palace in Thailand, the Arch in Osaka, and the Presidential Palace in Zaire, all use gold foil made in Nanjing. In March, 2004, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, Nanjing Gold Foil Group became the only gold foil manufacturer in the centennial maintenance of the Forbidden City, costing 2 billion yuan and taking 19 years. Nanjing gold foil has been widely developed and utilized in food, cosmetics, architecture, science and technology, decoration and many other fields. There are still many technological processes in gold foil production that cannot be replaced by machines. It is these ancient intangible cultural heritages that ensure the quality advantage and price advantage of Nanjing Gold Foil in international competition.

The real gold foil exported by China is world-famous, and has been exported to more than 40 countries and regions such as Italy, the United States, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Egypt and Southeast Asia. With the development of modern production technology, the production of gold foil has embarked on the track of industrialization, broadening the new uses of gold foil. The total output of Jiangning gold foil has reached more than 70% in the world. However, not many people have mastered this traditional skill, and the inheritance of gold foil technology is imminent.