Beijing Shopping

Beijing is a shopping paradise assembled a number of stores and brands. Cloisonné, Ivory Carving, Jade and Lacquer are known as the four best traditional handcrafts of Beijing. Besides, Antiques, Silk, Pearls, Snuff Bottles with Pictures Inside and Artificial Flowers are also popular among tourists. Haidian, Chaoyang, Dongcheng and Xicheng districts are gathered with large commercial streets, shopping malls and characteristic shops.

Wangfujing Street, Qianmen Street, Dongdan and Xidan Commercial Street are traditional shopping districts while the Jianguomen Outer Street and Chaowai Street are famous for the latest and most luxurious items. Characteristic Beijing handcrafts can be found at the time-honored shops in Dashilan and Wangfujing streets. Panjiayuan Antique Market, Beijing Curio City and Liulichang Cultural Street are good choices for antiques. Silk Street is mainly engaged in tourism and cultural products such as clothing, silk and souvenirs. Dawang Road and Sanlitun (Village) are great places for international brands. 

It reopened for business in its shiny new 5 storey shopping mall on March 19th 2005 replacing the infamous original outdoor Xiu Shui market. In doing so, it has become the inner city's one stop tourist shopping paradise. It's name is now written in English across the entrance as simply "Silk Street". Apart from the almost real-looking designer wear which was present at the old market, you can now enjoy shopping for a wealth of traditional Chinese knick knacks to bring home for your family.

This market is located in the south central area of Beijing, just to the east of the Temple of Heaven. It is an indoor mall with five floors up, filled mainly with cheap electronics, watches, cellphones, garments, shoes, bags, pearls and jewels, each floor having a specialty "theme" on the goods that they sell.

Silver street is in the Dongdan Beidajie of Beijing. the Chinese name is 'Yin Jie', In the old times, it was the vane of the fashion. All the franchised foreign name-brand were concentrated here. However, after reworked, the Silver street present another different feature.

This market is located on Sanlitun Lu, Chaoyang District, near the northeast embassy area, is similar to the Silk Market, It's an indoor 4-floorstore,Beijing's clothing Bazaar .It is also as crowded. It's full of fake designer, jeans, shoes and ladies wear and so on.

Beijing Wangfujing Shopping Area is a prestigious partly pedestrianised shopping street popular with both tourists and locals. It is located It is located in the Dongcheng district of Beijing, east of the Forbidden City and is one of the capitals most famous shopping streets. The Street starts from Wangfujung Nankou where the Oriental Plaza and the Beijing Hotel are located on Chang’an Street and finishes at Sun Dong An Plaza by the Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore.

Situated west of Panjiayuan Bridge and south of the East Third Ring Road, the Panjiayuan Antiques Market is very accessible. The market deals mainly in antiques and arts and crafts. It also has the reputation of being the most inexpensive antiques market in Beijing, attracting foreign and domestic tourists.

Old and new, real and fake, moral and immoral, it was all to be found on Liulichang Street, it is really a visitor's treat.Located in the southwestern part of the city, Liulichang is one of two streets which still bear the appearance of a Qing Dynasty market street ( the other is Suzhou Street in the Summer Palace mainly for show purposes).

Cloisonne (Jingtai Lan in Chinese) is a traditional workmanship which has a history of hundreds of years. It is a splendid handiwork making copper and porcelain elegantly integrated together, and is viewed as the essence of Oriental art.

The cheongsam is a body-hugging (modified in Shanghai) one-piece Chinese dress for women; the male version is the changshan. It is known in Mandarin Chinese as the qipao Wade-Giles ch'i-p'ao, and is also known in English as a mandarin gown. The stylish and often tight-fitting cheongsam or qipao (chipao) that is most often associated with today was created in the 1920s in Shanghai and was made fashionable by socialites and upperclass women.

Jade - a gemstone of unique symbolic energy, and unique in the myths that surround it. With its beauty and wide-ranging expressiveness, jade has held a special attraction for mankind for thousands of years.