No matter if you want to buy a fashionable dress or high-quality Beijing local products, you can find them in department stores.

There are plenty of department stores in Beijing, offering products ranging from fashion, cosmetics, and jewelries to household electrical equipment.Most of these products are consist of world famous brands associated with high quality. Customers may pay by credit card for their purchases at these department stores. Most of them also have ATM counters for the convenience of the customers.

Beijing Friendship Store

Chinese name: 友谊商场

Opened in 1964 with a floor area of 9,000 square meters, it is one of the largest departmental stores with a long history in Beijing. There are nearly 56,000 different products in the store, including clothes, cigarettes, jewelry, cameras and Chinese herbal medicine. Additionally, it is an ideal place for tourists as there are many traditional folk products being sold here, such as jade, curio, silk,cloisonné, calligraphy and Chinese painting.

With the upcoming Beijing Olympic Games, an Olympic licensed store has just opened in theFriendship Store, offering memorabilia like clothes, badges, caps and cases, amongst others.

Location: No. 17, Jianguomenwai Dajie, Chaoyang District

Shin Kong Place

Chinese name: 新光天地

Known as one of the most luxurious shopping centers in Beijing, it was opened only recently in 2007. There are many specialty shops catering to world famous brands likeGucci, Prada, Juicy, Anna Sui and Channel. There is even an entertainment street on the 1st floor underground.

Opening Hours: 10:00 - 22:00

Location: No. 87, Jianguo Lu, Chaoyang District