Beijing Commercial Street
Jianguomenwai St.
Jianguomenwai Street is a famous metropolitan centre, which nowadays has developed into a slap-up shopping centre, such as Friendship Store, Guiyou Department Store, Scitech Plaza and the China World Shopping Mall.
If bargaining loudly, crowded market makes your head hurt, or if want to get the goods of guaranteed quality, then the Friendship store will be a excellent place. With a history of more than 40 years, the Friendship Store trade in the Chinese traditional goods and handcrafts, including tablecloths, silk and cashmere, porcelain, watercolor paintings, traditional Chinese medicine, teas, jade and gold jewelry, rugs (both silk and wool), and foreign groceries. At the same time, you can look through the books of International Herald Tribune and books on politics and contemporary literature.
Covering an area of 13,000 square kilometers, the Scitech Plaza is one of the prestigious and slap-up modern shopping centre in Beijing. There are five floors above the ground and two floors underground. Because of the advanced facilities and pleasant environment, the Scitech Plaza is handle with the domestic and imported brand products.
Jianguomenwai St. is not very far away Tian锟斤拷anmen square, so it is a convenient place to do the shopping.
Lai Tai Lady锟斤拷s St.
Best known for being on the name 锟斤拷lady street锟斤拷 and next to and alleyway called 锟斤拷Lady Dressing Plaza锟斤拷, the new Lai Tai Lady锟斤拷s St. is one of the biggest non-clothes, but for flowers market on the east side of Beijing. Especially in the old days, strolling in Lai Tai is a perfect idea, as the huge of flowers, plants and orchids is attractive, even if you do not buy it. And there are also about 20 shops selling aquariums and aquarium equipment. Note that, the south side of the Liangmehe, opposite the Lufthansa Centre, smaller Lai Tai still exists behind Duty Nellies.
Liulichang Cultural Street
If you are interested with the Chinese traditional culture such as painting, calligraphy, the study tools of the ancient and so on, then you must to have a visit of Liulichang Culture St. Situated in Hepingmen since the Qing Dynasty for about 200 years, the street is accumulated by the shops of gray tiles and bricks, making it tasteful and classical.
Rongbaozhai Art Studio is the most famous one in the street. Established in the Qing Dynasty, but now it mainly sells calligraphy and paintings of both ancient and modern authors. It mainly traded in calligraphic works, carvings, paintings and seals by the well-known charactors. Until now it has kept down a dozen of valuable works.
Beijing Opera Remains
It is often chosen as the platform of the performance of the Beijing Opera. Many of the famous opera artist such as Meilanfang is nurtured here. Besides this, you can also find the living place of them.
There are other shops such as Cultural Relics Shop, Yanjiang Calligraphic Work and Painting Studio, Zhenyun Building for selling jewelry, Yide Building for selling ink sticks and red ink paste used for seals, Four Treasures of the Study for selling writing brushes, Jigu Building for Duplicating cultural relics and Cuiwen Building for selling seals.
Xidan Shopping Area
Situated in Xidan North St., west of Tian锟斤拷anmen square , Xiandan, a up-market commercial area, is a famous centre for commerce, entertainment and dinning, just like the US department store.
The market is oriented to different costumer groups, providing mid-and high-quality commodities and highlighting the distinctive feature of professionalsm and completeness to meet the needs of people.
There are a lot of old and new shops here such as: Xidan Shopping Center, Xidan Bazaar, Chung-Yo Department Store, Huanan Mansion, Paris Photo Studio, Weiwei Bride Wedding Dress Photo Studio and Capital Bookstore.
Chung-yo is a ideal shopping heaven. Chung-yo锟斤拷s business is always brisk. There are thousands of clothes including: modern, career and sports and so on. Chung-yo锟斤拷s cloth are more fashion and modern compared with the nearby stores. A lot of the world-award brand are abundant here, which is favored by shoppers both native and overseas.
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