Beijing Travel Guide
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| Beijing Shopping - Xiushui Street |
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. You can find a number of duplicates of clothing in traditional Chinese style such as clothes, caps, gloves. Enjoy bargains with sellers and pleasant surprise of finding a real treasure if you are lucky enough. Now, Xiushui Street is in reconstruction.
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| Beijing Shopping |
When you wander along Beijing's Xiushui Street, you will see that most of the stores promote their goods in various languages. They offer a wide variety, including curtains, tablecloths, bedding, earrings, and watches as well as clothes, inexpensive caps, and shoes of excellent workmanship. If you want to buy something, you should check with more than one store and haggle over the price.
It is several hundred meters long and is also known as the Leading Foreign Trade Market. The street lies at the southeastern corner of the diplomatic quarter in Beijing's Chaoyang District and has many hotels and offices of foreign-funded enterprises.
Xiushui Street used to be a wholesale market where businessmen from Eastern European countries purchased clothes, and all business was conducted in English and Russian. Today, the street is a tourist spot where people speaking many languages go shopping, both wholesale and retail.
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Panjiayuan Antique Market
Panjiayuan Antique Market is a holiday market engaged in sales of folk antiques and handicrafts, named as "the market with the most diversified collections" and "the largest collecting and distributing center of handicrafts ". Panjiayuan Antique market takes up an area of more than 50 hectares with 3000 booths and nearly 10,000 employees, selling all kinds of folk antiques, handicrafts and second-hands. The market attracts 40,000 to 50,000 tourists per day.
Liang Ma antique collection market
Liang Ma antique collection market has been established in 1992. Located between the east third and fourth ring. It is closed to the third embassy area. There are a lot of foreign business company and their office set here. The market area occupied 5000square meters. In the market you can find porcelain. Jade Ware, clocks, Old camera, Chinese characters. Chinese Paintings, antique furniture, house decoration items. The secretary of UN Mr.Annan once came here.
Silk Street market
Silk Street market is located in the east Silk Street, Southeast to the Ritan Embassy Area. The market has 410 booths and up to 1000 employees. Its annual sale volume reaches 100 million Yuan. The Market runs the sale of Chinese ingenious silky dress and tour mementos.
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| Hongqiao Pearl Market |
Hongqiao Pearl Market
It is famous for its pearl and fresh seafood etc.
Add: East Road of the Temple of Heaven, Chongwen District
Pearl is the speciality of this market. These are sweet water pear from southern China provinces. These girls are very skillful and doing things very quick. They can re-make the pear necklace/bracelet as the design you like. Just tell them what you want!
The quality is not bad general speaking, people like to bring them back to their country for the cheap price and not bad quality . It's the perfect gift from China...
