Shopping in Beijing

Beijing Xidan Business Street
1. Zhong You Department Store
After getting out of the exit of subway station, you can get into Zhongyou Department Store by passing through a three-dimensional cinema. Why not go for a multidimensional movie! It is a good choice to have a real adventurous and exciting experience at a price of RMB 50 Yuan. You can always see large number of customers enjoying delicious food in the Food City of the department store. Customer group of Zhongyou Department Store is mainly comprised of youngsters; costume consumption is correctly positioned in Gentlewomen Hall and Maiden Hall for customers.
What is worth mentioning is Xidan Culture Square. As a project for 50th anniversary of foundation of the People's Republic of China, it has a large number of underground shops as its supporting commercial facilities, in addition to its function of shopping, it has its uniqueness in entertainment. Just have a rest in the Douhuazhuang Restaurant nearby after shopping, you can find a variety of snack foods there, self-help hot pot of RMB 28 Yuan is applicable for salaried group. After renovation in the beginning of 2004, modern "cool" products have been introduced through the cooperation with "77 Street" brand from Singapore. Previous skating rink and 4D cinema are reserved as special attraction, DJ stage is installed in the department store for regular promotion activities by foreign DJ, which has attracted thousands of young faddists.
When you walk out from underground toward Xidan Department Store, you can see shop clerks of franchised stores along the road full of passion, standing by the door applauding to welcome your visit, price discounts are found everywhere, Humphrey, Baleno and other brands. Quanyechang, Minorities World Market and Pearl Department Store that gather large number of individual businessmen look somewhat like fairs.

2. Xi Dan Shopping Center
Xi Dan Shopping Center is located at No. 132 Xi Dan North Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to Xidan Plaza and Xi Dan Scitech Shopping City. The penman advises that you can come to the first floor food special sale to buy some Beijing special products and bring them back. The price of garment department of the second floor seems moderate, various age tourists can buy satisfied goods here and it is shopping sites identified by civilians. Xidan Huawei Store situated on the fifth floor is very busy. In small commodity markets with gigantic area, there manages decorating articles, cap, case, toy, craft-work, watch and fashion articles you haven't seen before. Here belongs to handsome boys and pretty girls and is the heaven of youth. Adjoining South Korea City once is splendiferous maidan by which your fashion taste is tested. The immersion of Nowadays South Korea flow is accepted to some extent, so its goods also enter into a model. If you have a thin and tall good figure and want to show, South Korea Dress Exhibition is a beautiful choose.

3. Xi Dan Plaza
Xi Dan Store connecting Xi Dan Shopping Center is an old establishment enterprise with sixty-nine years' history and operation area of Xi Dan Store is about thirty thousand square meters. Operation goods almost include eighty thousand kinds, forms operation characteristic integrating with scale operation of popular commodity and service for middle age and youth consumption group and becomes multifunction comprehensive mansion integrating with food, amusement and recreation.

4. Xi Dan Scitech Shopping City
Xi Dan Scitech Shopping City is located at Beijing busy Xi Dan North Street and is separated from Xi Dan Shopping Center and Xi Dan Plaza with a road. They are all central shopping sites in Xi Dan district and business streets known all over the country. It is made up of underground first floor and overground seven floors, and operated products include all of the things. If you want some things necessary to your life or heard before, you can find them here. Commodity fixes on middle and high level, quality is superior and shopping environment is very comfortable.

Beijing Distinctive Business Zone
1. Business Zone in Jian Guomenwai Street
There is a famous friendship shop on Jian Guo Men Wai Street with international color. If you want to buy what you want in short travel time, come here! Commodity quality is good and commodity kind is various, still you can buy many Chinese traditional characteristic commodities, textiles, jewelry, manual carpet and craftwork. Ardent shopkeepers inside the shop are specially trained, can receive you in multinational language, answer various questions of foreign friends during shopping and this no-obstacle communication is a good chance through which you can know Beijing and China. This district is a center of star hotels, advanced office buildings, embassy district and diplomatic apartments. It is a hot golden district.

2. Chao Wai Street
This is also one of commerce centers with the rising temperature pooling Full Link Shopping Arcade, Hua Pu Commerce Mansion, Blue Island Tower and Lan Dao West City. New decorated Ya Bao Market is located here and sometimes can buy some good things with high quality and low price. Currently, this area has been the base camp of KTV.

3. Hongqiao Market
As a distributing center of antiques, cultural relics and old books and pictures in Beijing, Hongqiao Market is famous for its advantage of low price. Compared with Liulichang, the price and grade is low, but it possesses appetency, which suit for those tourists who fond of novel plaything and don't want to spend a lot of money. If you are expert with penetrating eyesight, you can shop some valuable cowry. Except antique and calligraphy and painting, there are still lots of general merchandise, toys and other small commodities here.

4. Dongdan Silver Street
Silver Street is located at the Dong Dan Crossing (to northeast of East Square). Shops along Silver Street are one by one, and most of them are specialties and foreign trade Stores. Whether shop decoration or decoration layout possesses speciality and fits youth fond of individuality dress.

5. Caishikou Department Business Zone
- Route: Take Bus No. 53, 66 and 105 to Cai Shi Kou stop
Here is a heaven of gold! Right, Cai Bai boasts as the first gold shop in Beijing is famous for selling gold bijouterie at low price. Different from other large-size store, although commodities sold on the first floor hall is bijouterie and light blue purple color adds elegance and tranquility, perhaps here is a gold & silver island of your dream. If you are free, come and ramble. Of course, choosing jewelry suited to you is not a bad choice for those visiting Beijing. The ratio of property-price is very reasonable and the quality is absolutely good.

6. Wantong New World
For the people fond of shopping, Wantong New World Mall is a shopping heaven with low price and many commodities. Here are all kinds of general merchandise, clothing, shoes and caps you want to buy. There is a busy and pleasant atmosphere just like spring festival. There are crowd commercial shops and ardent booth owner, but you need bargain personally. Here not only there are numerous commodities, but also many thieves and most are women thieves. Because here is woman's happy land and shopping heaven, so you should take care of your bag and be careful of woman thief beside you! Take subway and get off at Fu Cheng Men station.

7. Women Street
Women Street is located beside East 3rd Ring Road, five hundred meters from Yansha and situated at No.9 Maizidian West Road, Chaoyang District. Take bus No.707 and special No.3 and get off at Lai Tai Flower Market. There are No. 405, 416, 300, 302, 847, 831 and 830 buses, facilitate traffic saves your travel time. There assemble some old owners of San Li Tun, Bai Yun and Xiu Shui on the women street whose operation covers clothing, general merchandise and shoes and cap, and mainly include products of foreign trade, Guang Zhou goods, South Korea goods and Hong Kong and Tai Wan. It possesses 1,100 clothing booths and is the largest clothing market currently in Beijing. It is believed that you can find things you want here.

8. Pacific Department Store
Large-size department store with about thirty thousand square meters has been opened in Ying Ke Center of East 3 rd Ring. It serves white-collar customers with the salary of over three thousand Yuan, and half of its commodities come from south. It is expected that realizing alternate operation with Beijing current market and booming with Beijing stores together. There are many clothing and cosmetic brands here seldom seen in Beijing stores. The store mainly operates youth clothing suited to the people with less than forty years old, and establishes special sale site and supermarket of household appliance.

9. Friendship Store-Emerald City
Your travel arrangement is on edge and there is no time to cope with, friendship store is a good choice. You can purchase textile, jewel, manual carpet, craftwork, travel souvenir and general merchandise in the supermarket. Mentioning jewel, we talk about Emerald City. Since 1964, with forty years' development experience of friendship store, operated emerald forms its own special style and becomes a culture and an artwork and enjoy the laurel all over the country and spread all over the world.

10. Jia Yi Classic Garment Market
Most of the original excellent businessmen of Sanlitun, Xiushui and Baiyun assemble here. It operates tens of thousands of commodities export to Europe and America, Japan and South Korea and Southeast Asia, such as clothes, fashionable dresses, sports garments and decorations, cases, shoes and caps. Common people could enjoy the fashion information conveyed by Jiayi Classic Garments at the most reasonable price no matter their salary is high or low.

11.Lai Tai Flower Street (Laitaihua Street) on the east of Lufthansa
Lai Tai Flower Street situated at CBD commercial district is three hundred meters long, one thousand meters trading hall and several hundred shops all operate business related to fresh cutting flower and flower. Here is the world of flower, people seems only supporting role here and friend fond of flowers can visit here. The price of flower is exciting for anthomanias.

12. Beijing Book Store
Located in the busy business zone of Xidan in Chang'an Avenue, Xidan Book Mansion possesses its own parking ground and traffic here is very convenient. It is the largest Book City in Beijing. Floor 1 to 4 of it is open-shelf book sale district, including books of social science, science & technology, medicine, literature, foreign languages, children reading materials and foreign editions and Macao and Tai Wan edition books and picture atlas. It has everything that one expects to find, and there still are various audiovisual products. If you feel tired when purchasing books here, you can have a rest and drink something in Happy Tom Snack in the underground first floor and coffee hall of the upstairs fourth floor.

13. San Lian Tao Fen Book Shop
There is a book shop lull of modern art feeling and thick human culture sentiment on No.22 east street, Art Gallery-San Lian Book Shop. The full name of San Lian Book Shop is "living, reading and new knowledge" San Lian Book Shop. "Actually its establishment from incorporation of Living Book Shop, Reading Publisher and New Knowledge Book Shop" found in the twentieth and thirtieth and publishing abundant revolutionary and progressive books before new China established and incorporated into San Lian Book Shop in Hong Kong on October 26,1948. Decoration of nowadays San Lian Book Shop is simple and friendly and expresses thick culture details. There lays current salable books in the hall of the first floor, still is book queue of this week and there most are various special books of language, history theory and philosophy the ground floor. The second floor is art world. Various art books include everything, from simple package to perfect package, from Occident canvas to traditional Chinese painting, and still abundant importing perfect package picture album that can't be seen in other Book Shops and whose prices are very high.

14. Audiovisual Products
When you visit along Xin Jie Kou South Street, you can find that small stores on this street are categorized according to commodities. Commodities with the same function assemble in the centralized shops. On street of music instrument, there sell various music instrument, such as fiddle, guitar and piano, shopkeeper is cognoscente and ardently introduces and demonstrates various music instruments. After rambling the street, just like you receive a music lesson. Those friends fond of music instruments must come here to discuss? And there are many small stores mainly selling small household appliance of personal stereo and MP3 and still is part acoustics products, including SONY AIWA and PANASONIC. The price is negotiable. There are videotape stores here, and sell CD, VCD and DVD. The price is reasonable and there are many kinds. There assemble many cognoscentes fond of music.

15. Art Articles
If you are an art fan, you can go across Long Fu Temple lo the back street of Art Gallery. There is China Art Gallery and you also can visit art articles shop to the opposite of Art Gallery. There include everything from paintbrush and pigment to paper and book. In spite of what kind of creation you engage in, the commodities here can satisfy your demand and the price is from low grade to high grade. The kind of frame shops is very comprehensive and you also can order it.

16. Da Zhong Acoustics Electrical Appliances City
"Your demand is our project", this is the tenet of Da Zhong Acoustics Electrical Appliance City. When you enter into Da Zhong Acoustics Electrical Appliance City, you can find that acoustics equipment and household appliance full of beautiful things in eyes are orderly. Employees with uniform are very ardent and carefully receive every customer. This shopping environment is pleasant to you, and you can naturally produce belief feeling. Da Zhong Acoustics City ensures customers to purchase in comfortable environment and realizes a series of service of consultation, design, audition installation and debug.

17. Guo Mei Electrical Appliances Store
Guo Mei Electrical Appliances Co., Ltd. was established in 1987 and is a linkage retail commerce enterprise mainly selling homemade, joint, imported household electrical appliance and computer. After over ten years' development, Guo Mei wins certificate of broad customers with good service, low price, facilitate position and elegant shopping environment. "Go to Guo Mei to buy electrical appliances" becomes a common understanding of populace. Operation strategy of small profits but quick turnover leads Guo Mei Electrical Appliances Company to win the favor of customers.

18. Antique Shop
Warn to tourists: do not to purchase rashly and you'd better arm yourself. The first is to learn history (not unofficial history). The second is to learn the origin of curio. The third is to invite an expert with profound knowledge about antiques. Don't pretend that you know well if you don't know, or you will waste your money vainly.

19. Curio City
There are many curio shops and curio markets in the world, such as Moluo Street of Hong Kong, Flea Market of Paris and antique shops in Bihuali Street in Los Angeles, but the one in the largest scale is Beijing Curio City. Beijing Curio City is the largest in-house curio shop and curio market in Asia, even in the world.352 doors of traveling merchants coming from all over the country, bring antiques and cultural relics works of culture style of different regions and realize "buy all over the country and sell all over the country", including not only Han culture, but also culture of every nation. Handed antique or purchased various antiques. There still are new craftworks of self-produce and self-sale and with unique style. Beautiful shops distribute in three-stores building. Ramble in it and identify history, go shopping, enjoy treasure, feel happy.
- Address: 3 No.21 East 3rd Ring South Road, Chaoyang District

20. Colored Glaze Plant (Liulichang)
There are many antiques, curios and calligraphy and painting here. Most big shops serving foreign travelers and with good credit include Rong Bao Zhai, Ji Gu Ge and China Book Shop. We have introduced before, now we shall not mention it any more.
- Address: South Xin Hua Street, He Ping Men

21. Pan Jia Yuan Second Hand Goods Trading
There are cognoscentes looking for treasure or beginner only identifying not buying everywhere. From curio craftworks to household second hand, it can be said omnifarious. You can see various things that you even unthink of.
- Address: No.200 west to Pan Jia Yuan Bridge, ChaoYang district

22. Porcelain
You could stroll the fixed tour shops, if you are interested in porcelain. And you could also ramble the distinctive shops, if you like handwork porcelain. Listen to the story of porcelain.
"Tale of Porcelain", locates at the southeast corner of Xishiku Street and the crossroad of Dahongluochang Street, faces West Huangchenggen, is a special shop of selling porcelain. Come of Sanguo, Liangjin, developed in Beisong, nourished in Nansong. Ancient style decorated shop, the elegance porcelain passed down the history of porcelain culture. All the works will give you grace feeling, are valuable masterpiece.
- Address: No.31, Xishiku Street, Xicheng District
- Directions: Take No.55, get off at Houku, or take No.850, get off at Hongluochang

23. Household Articles
Suggest that you come here to visit and experience concision and buoyancy of modern household.
- Ikea Furniture operation lime: from 10:00 in the morning to 9:00 at night
- Store place: North 3rd Ring Middle Road, Xicheng District, Beijing
- Store scale: 15,400 square meters
- Park: including outdoor parking place and garage
- Restaurant: including Switzerland Flavor Restaurant, Switzerland Food House and small restaurant.
Operation concept of Ikea Furniture is that providing various, beautiful and affordable furniture goods. You can see newer and brighter furniture lay project every month. The thing that customer. should do is that reading product catalog, visiting Ikea Store and picking up furniture and getting goods in self-choose storehouse. Because most goods utilize flat package and you can facilitate to carry it home to assemble. Thus you can save much expense. So Ikea will create low price with you together and create beautiful everyday life with you together.

24. Supermarkets
Supermarket shopping has become an integral pail of lives m Beijing, management and services in supermarkets in Beijing keep on improving, participation of foreign supermarkets have accelerated the standardized development of supermarkets.
Recommended supermarkets include:

1. Pacific Century Place Supermarket
The supermarket has a large space; you can get yourself into an agreeable shopping environment with soft music to enjoy the elegance and delicacy from Shanghai. Its food supermarket is characterized by a large variety of middle and high-grade imported foods; it is natural that these products are high-priced. You can also find a large number of popular snack foods in coffee bar, bakery, and 31 kinds of American ice creams, salad bar and Japanese restaurants.
- Address: B-1, Pacific Century Place, located in the South of Worker Stadium

2. Carrefour Supermarket
Everyone in Beijing knows a supermarket called Carrefour near China International Exhibition Center. When it is first opened six years ago, many local residents were excited by its brand-new layout and cheap prices. Carrefour has set up 27 supermarkets in China during last 6 years. Adequate layout, convenient and low priced goods and frequent special discounts have attracted large number of customers everyday.

3. Wangshibaili Sunshine Plaza Store
Though located in Yayuncun business district, Wangshibaili adopts the strategy of low profit margin as result of competition from large and small supermarkets nearby like Ito Yokado, Jiahe, North Star, Huahui and Wu Mart. Fresh seafood, alluring fruits, savory breads and large variety of cooked foods are really fascinating. Special discounts are offered to its members, so you can also make application for a member card at the service desk to enjoy its value-added services for members.
- Address: F/B1, Sunshine Plaza, Yanyuncun