Shopping in Beijing

As an ancient capital, Beijing gathered the craftsmen from different places, so the arts and crafts of Beijing embody the essence of China. Shopping in Beijing, the first choice is crafts and ancient heritage with oriental features and “sense of Beijing”. In addition, the typical local foods are variety of preserved fruits and snacks, and the Chinese medicine tonics are also very authentic.

Xidan
Xidan Shopping Street is one of the most famous traditional business district. So many merchants and customers gathered at there with the average volume of commuters more than 200,000 per day, which directly promote the popularity of the street. The involved industry include: general merchandise, restaurants, entertainment, finance and others. It occupies the indispensable position in Beijing's retail business.
Currently, there are a series morden shopping malls and department stores as Xidan Department Store, Xidan Shopping Center, Xidan Scitech Shopping Mall and Zhongyou Department Store and many “time honored shop” as “daoxiangcun” grocery store, “thousands miles” shoe store, “Yuang Chang-hou” tea house and others.
Beijing Book Building is a gathering place for the capital's bookworms. In addition, Beijing Xidan Cultural Square, total construction area of 3.5 million square meters, is the comprehensive venues integrating the leisure, entertainment and shopping. At the center of Commercial Street is leisure plaza, where equipped restaurants, markets, cinemas, bowling alley, swimming pool, rock climbing, and the largest mirror palace in ground floor. It's out of question that it becomes the largest cultural and entertainment center along the side of Chang'an Avenue.
Xidan, retail-business oriented, develop the mating services at the same time. It sale the middle and high goods, highlighted character of the “special” and “full”, to meet the customer needs from all stratums.

Wangfujing
Wangfujing, refers to the Wangfujing Avenue, is the most famous business district of Beijing with location at south from East Chang'an Avenue, north to the China Art Gallery, full-length 3 mile.
At there, it's really an eyeful of goodies, selling commodities include daily necessities, hardware, garments, jewelry diamonds, gold and silver. The daily amount of procurements and sales are significant, well known as bring a bucket gold per day. Enter form the south enterance, it's the view of intensive shop sign, next to stores and crowded persons. Persons enter this street are more than one million daily, Wangfujing is welcoming all the customers form home and abroad.

Maliandao Tea Street
Maliandao Tea Street specialized in tea procurement and sales. On the 1500 meters length street, settle the one hundred tea stores and five tea cities. It gather the main famous and high quality tea from Zhejiang, Fujian, Anhui, Yunnan, Guizhou and other major tea growing area, with annual sales revenue of 10 billion yuan. It's the most distribution center in north region and takes up the tenth of the national sales volume.

Silk Street
As the China's earliest free market and most famous commercial brands, Silk Street already have the three decades history. In the 29th Olympic Games, the renewed Silk Street does the main reception market for foreign guests sightseeing and shopping and develop into the international influential market for tourism and shopping together with the Great Wall and Forbidden City. The average volume of commuters achieves 15 million per year, of which more then 90% are foreigners.
It's nearly 2000 stalls in the market and full of the most characteristics goods, such as silk, pearls, porcelain, tea, crafts and other local foods representative with Beijing Roast Duck. Also it's the market with the highest density of and most fascinating traditional culture, the brands include Ruifuxiang, Wu Yutai, Tongrentang, Qianxiangyi, Shengxifu, Neiliansh time-honored store eng and others total 19 stores.
Hundreds of national political matters and their wives, and countless international stars in culture and sports patronize Silk Street frequently, which embodies its unique position as the China first foreign market.

Longfu Temple Folk Culture Street
Longfu Temple is located in North Dongsi Street to East Art Gallery Street, with 600 meters length. So far, it's more than 550 years of commercial history, hence full of the sense of history and calm public atmosphere, even revealing a little of historical sense in street's name.
From the middle of Ming dynasty, Longfu Temple fair was the hot place for “burning money” in Beijing. At the end of Qing dynasty, during the period of temple fair, many of persons came to participate, include the nobility resident in near palace, the foreigners of Daong Jiao Ming Xiang embassy, poor people and suburban farmers.
At present, the function of Longfu Temple fair reflects the folk, popular and fashion-oriented, the main consume groups are the ordinary people. The target customers shift to the social strata and form the operating features base in commodity and snacks. At there, you can buy a wide variety of local specialties, eat a variety of local snacks and enjoy the old Beijing folk opera.

Tongrentang
Tongrentang is the famous time-honored drugstore in Beijing and famous in home and abroad by pills, powders, pastes and Dan. Chinese pharmacy store of Tongrentang is was renowned as China's four pharmacies together with Huqingtang in Hangzhou, Chenliji in Guangzhou and Yekaitai in Hankou. Its product quality is excellent, just like cure upon eat pharmacy and the magic hand that restores health. Beside of inherit and folk prescription, it occupies a lot of prescription which used for emperor family in Qing dynasty.