Beijing / Famous Shops and Stores

Beijing is a civilized ancient city with a long history and a developed trade. As early as in the Yuan Dynasty 1 1206-1368), Beijing was a famous commercial city in the world. During the Qing Dynasty, the market in Beijing was brisk. Today shops in Beijing are in a great number, scattered in every corner and goods are sophisticated. Goods on Beijing market are brand, special and new products from various parts of the country.

Today, Beijing has 10 famous shopping streets including the Wangfujing, Dongdanbei, Longfusi, Xidanbei, Qianmen and Xiushui streets, and Liulichang Cultural Street. These streets boast modern malls and boutiques or special articles shops and provide various kinds of services.

The goods tourists to Beijing prefer to buy are unique handicrafts and cultural relics full of Beijing flavor, such as cloisonne, jade ware, bronzes and stone tablets with inscriptions, writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and ink slabs, antiques, paintings, calligraphic works and handicrafts including dough figurines, facial masks and kites unique to Beijing.

Famous Bazaars

New Dong'an Bazaar

New Dong'an Bazaar on Wangfujing Street is the earliest and the most famous one in Beijing, with a floor space of 220,000 square meters. Rebuilt into a joint venture, the market is the first-ranking trade mansion for multi-functions of daily used articles, retail sales, cinema, amusement, food and office. The market occupies an area of 22,000 square meters.

Department Store

Located on the Wangfujing Street, it was built in 1955, occupying a floor space of 16,000 square meters. It deals a great variety of goods and becomes the top shopping destination for tourists from home and abroad.

Ruifuxiang Silk and Cotton Fabrics Shop

The shop was opened in the first year of the reign of the Qing Emperor Tongzhi and has a history of more than 120 years. It has branches in Beijing and Tianjin. The shop handles 10,000 kinds of silk, woolen and cotton textiles.

Yuanlong Embroidery & Silk Fabrics Trading Inc.

This trading company handles the Gu embroidery and silk fabrics.

Arts and Crafts World Mansion

Beijing Arts and Crafts World Mansion is China's largest of its kind. Its business scope: gold and silver jewehy,jade, stone and wood carvings, cloisonne, lacquerware, pottery or porcelain lamps, silk fabrics, wax printings, glassware, bamboo and straw woven articles, writing brush, ink sticks, paper and ink slabs, paintings, calligraphic works and seals.

Friendship Store

The store provides services mainly for foreign visitors. It handles silk fabrics, gold and silver jewelry, jade, carved ivory goods, embroidery and cloisonne. Also it has a cafe room, a flower and pot plant section, a tailor's shop, a clock and watch repair shop and a shipment consigning and collection section for providing such services as packing, shipping, mail orders, customs declaration and appreciating cultural relics.

Beijing Antique City

This city is the largest antique exchange center in Asia and handles more than 1,000 kinds of antiques including paintings, calligraphic works, jewelry and jade goods. It has sponsored regular exhibitions and auctions.

Cultural Relics Shop

It has 11 selling stores including Baoshizhai, Yunguzhai, Yueyatang and Qingyuntang studios. It deals pottery and porcelain from different historical periods, gold and silver jewelry, ancient coins, bamboo, wood and ivory carvings, hard wood furniture, paintings and calligraphic works, rubbings from stone inscriptions and seals. Yueyatang Studio sells ancient arts and crafts.

Rongbaozhai Studio

Rongbaozhai Studio has a history of more than 200 years. It deals paintings, calligraphic works, carvings and seals by famous figures, especially the watercolor block prints. Today it has preserved a dozen of valuable works including a Tianhuang seal and a piece of Tianhuang stone weighing 4,275 grams, the heaviest of its kind in the world.

Shopping Streets

Wangfujing Street

As the most famous shopping center in Beijing, it boasts many reputed shops such as New Dong'an Bazaar, Department Store, Arts and Crafts Mansion, China Photo Studio, Foreign Language Bookstore, Shengxifu Hat Store, Darning Optical Shop, Swiss Watch Repair Center, Green House Store, Quanjude Roast Duck Restaurant and Vegetarian Restaurant.

Dongdan North Street (Silver Street)

The clothing stores on this street include Sanyou Mall, Huabiao Market, Baitu Fashion, Fengda Knitwear Store, Qini Clothing for Pregnant Women. Also it boasts wedding photo studios such as Weiwei Bride, Paris, Venus. The restaurants on the street offer dishes of various styles, including Xingyuelou Restaurant, Hunan Restaurant, Sichuan Restaurant and Inner Mongolia Restaurant.

Xidan North Street

This street has old and new shops. The famous ones include Xidan Shopping Center, Xidan Bazaar, Chung-Yo Department Store, Huanan Mansion, Paris Photo Studio, Weiwei Bride Wedding Dress Photo Studio and Capital Bookstore.

Qianmen Shopping Street

This is an ancient shopping street outside Qianmen Gate. It is sided by shops and restaurants. Especially the Dashilar Tourist and Pedestrian Street has many old shops such as Tongrentang Pharmacy, Neiliansheng Shoe Shop, Ruifuxiang Silk and Cotton Fabrics Shop, Quanyechang, Zhang Yiyuan Tea Store and Majuyuan Hat Store.

Chongwenmenwai Street

It is flanked by some big shops and markets such as Jinlun Mansion and New World malls, Hongqiao and Ciqikou markets selling farm produce and aquatic products, and Heavenly Temple Market selling flowers and pot plants.

Liulichang Cultural Street

It is lined by shops including Rongbaozhai Studio, Cultural Relics Shop, Yanjing 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.

Longfu Shopping Street

A pedestrian shopping street, the shops in the section to the west of Longfu Trade Building mainly sell clothes and those in the section to the east of Longfu Trade Building are most snack eateries.

Xiushui Street

Xiushui Street is one of the famous clothing markets in Beijing. It attracts domestic and foreign tourists with varied styles, colors and materials as well as a cheap price.

Famous Shops and Stores

Department Store (comprehensive) 255 Wangfujing St. Tel 65126677 New Dong'an Bazaar Wangfujing St. Tel:Tel 65280186 Xidan Bazaar (comprehensive) 120 Xidan N. St. Tel:66022406 Beijing Book Center West Chang'an Boulevard Tel:66078477 Friendship Store (comprehensive) 17 Jianguomenwai Ave. Tel:65003311 Longfu Trade Building (comprehensive) 95 Longfusi St. Tel:84016688 Qianmen Trade Mansion (comprehensive) 20 Qianmen E. St. Tel:65113258 CVIK Shopping Center (high-grade) 22 Jianguomenwai St. Tel:65124488 Blue Islet Mansion (general) Dongdaqiao Tel:65025174 Hongdu Fashion Co. 28 Dongiiaominxiang Tel:65136644 Beichen Shopping Center (comprehensive) Asian Game Village Tel:64993263 Guiyou Bazaar (general) Yong'anli, Jianguomenwai Tel:65011177 Henderson Center 18 Jianguomennei Ave. Tel:65183260 Beijing Tourist Trade City Zhuanjiaolou, Hepingli Tel:64216431 Ruifuxiang Silk and Cotton Fabrics Shop 5 Dashilar, Qianmenwai Tel:63032880 Tongrentang Pharmacy 24 Dashilar, Qianmenwai Tel:63014883

Yuanlong Embroidery & Silk Fabrics Trading Inc. 15 Yongnei E. St. Tel:67012854 Arts and Crafts World Mansion 200 Wangfujing St. Tel:65288866 Rongbaozhai Studio 19 Liulichang W. St. Tel:63012177 Beijing Antique City 21 E.Third Ring S. Rd. Tel:67747711 Cultural Relics Shop 64 Liulichang E. St. Tel:63017433 Zhongqiao Duty Free Shop Fangihuang Residential Area Tel:67630618 Jinlun Mansion (comprehensive) 40 Chongwenmen St. Tel:67013497 Beijing-Lufthansa Friendship Shopping City 52 Liangmaqiao Rd. Tel:64651188 Neiliansheng Shoe Shop (traditional style) 34 Qianmenwai St. Tel:63013038 Darning Optical Shop Wangfujing St. Tel:65252072 China Crafts Shop (handicrafts) Badaling Section of the Great Wall Tel:69121027 Wanquantang Pharmacy 35 Chongwenmenwai Ave. Tel:67012479 Foreign Language Bookstore Wangfujing St. Tel:65126929 Beijing Shinei Duty Free Shop East Third Ring S. Rd. Tel:67736081 Hengdeli Clock and Watch Shop (Psi) 271 Wangfujing St. Tel:65253490 Chongwenmen Vegetable Market Chongwenmen Tel: 67003881

Shops in Hotels

Shop in the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel It deals Chinese traditional handicrafts such as cloisonne, gold, silver and jade jewelry, silk clothing and embroidered clothing. Add: East Third Ring N. Rd. Tel: (010) 65905566 ext. 2324 Commercial Center of Xiyuan Hotel This center is situated to the east of the hotel lobby and sells necessities to the Chinese and foreign guests who stay with the hotel. Add: 1 Sanlihe Rd. Tel: (010) 68313388 est. 10142 Shopping Center of Yanjing Hotel This center deals famous Chinese and foreign cigarettes, wines and drinks and silk fabrics. Add: 19, Fuxingmenwai St. Tel: (010) 68536688 ext. 16302 Shop in Jianguo Hotel This shop sells handicrafts, films, postcards and silk fabrics and other goods to the guests of the hotel. Add: 1/F, Jianguo Hotel, Jianguomenwai Ave. Tel: (010) 65002233 ext. 2158 Bazaar in New Otani Changfugong Hotel It deals lacquerware, tapestries, carpets, figures made of silk fabrics and other handicrafts and seal-engraving for guests. Add: 26 Jianguomenwai Ave. Tel: (010) 65125555 ext. 1167

Shop in Minzu Hotel The shop is situated in the east side of the hotel lobby and deals general merchandise and sells gifts to the guests of the hotel. Add: 51 Fuxingmennei Ave. Tel: (010) 66014466 ext. 1829 Shop in Qianmen Hotel The shop is on the both sides of Liyuan Theater and meets shopping demands of the audience coming to enjoy Peking Opera. Add: 175 Yong'an Rd. Tcl: (010) 63016688 est. 8853 Shop of Xinqiao Hotel This shop deals mainly Hangzhou reversible embroidery, tapestries, embroidered pieces and ceramics from Jingdezhen. Add: 2 Dongjiaominxiang Tel: (010) 65133366 ext. 1116 Mingmenfang of Jinglun Hotel On the first floor of the hotel, this shop deals jewelry, silk fabrics and others. Add: 3 Jianguomenwai Ave. Tel: (010) 65002266 ext. 8189 Shopping Center in Beijing Hotel This center is on the first floor of the hotel and deals folk handicrafts, paintings, calligraphic works, jewels and daily necessities. Add: 33 E. Chang'an Boulevard Tel: (010) 65137755 ext. 257

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