Where to shop when you travel around Beijing? Hundreds or even thousands of interesting places for you to visit, but which places can really make your shopping trip in Beijing count? As for this question,Trip Advisor has found a list of top interesting and meaningful places to visit for you.
1. 798 Art District
798 Art District is situated in Dashanzi area, Jiuxianqiao, Chaoyang District, and so it is also called DAD (Dashanzi Art District). The art district covers an area of 0.6 square kilometer, with Jiuxianqiao Road to its west, Beijing-Baotou railway to its east, Jiangtai Road to its south and Jiuxianqiao Road North to its north. It is a new rising, avant-garde and trendy district that hosts high-level cultural, artistic and commercial activities.
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11.Solana Shopping Mall Beijing
Solana Shopping Mall is located near Chaoyang Park (or Beijing Sun Park) and is surrounded by well-developed dining restaurants, bars and entertainment areas. Solana has already become a symbol of this area. As the advanced communities around Chaoyang Park and CBD continue to improve, the future upscale trend of this shopping arcade will become more and more obvious.
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6. Shopping Mall of The Place
The Palace is quite famous among nearly everyone working or living in Beijing because the Asia’s largest sky-screen overhead create a pleasurable and fashionable environment for each visitor. But the more important fashion of The Place is its fashionable shopping mall.
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9.Sanlitun
Sanlitun is always considered one of the most popular nightlife areas in Beijing because of its bars, clubs and restaurants which welcome visitors every night with excitement. However, Sanlitun is also a shopping paradise for you. All kinds of clothes can be found here, especially traditional Chinese wear, for both men and women.
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8. Panjiayuan Antiques Market
Hands down the best place in Bijing to shop for arts, crafts and antiques. Some stalls open every day, but the market is at its biggest and most lively on weekends, when you can find everything from calligraphy, Cultural Revolution memorabilia and cigarette ad posters, to Buddha heads, ceramics, Qing dynasty--style furniture and Tibetan carpets.
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3.Wangfujing Shopping Street
Wangfujing is now considered as the central heart of Beijing City. It is the first modern-style commercial street in Beijing, about 800 meters long and on two sides of it standing many stores and malls. A walk from end to end would take you about 30 mins, and that's without looking at any shops and malls. The street is a shopper's paradise, filled with shops selling paintings and traditional Chinese arts and crafts, trendy boutiques and upscale chain stores as well as restaurants serving everything from McDonald's cuisine to Peking Duck.
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7.Qianmen Street
Qianmen (前门) Street is formally known as Zhengyangmen (正阳门) Street, standing south of Tiananmen Square, and was formerly the front gate of the Inner City, a part of the ancient city of Beijing. It was burnt to ashes in 1900 when the Allied Forces of the Eight Powers ransacked Beijing. It has been renovated to that of the early twentieth century, and through uses of historical photos, becoming the second pedestrian thoroughfare in the Chinese capital, after Wangfujing Street.
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12.Yandaixie Street
Yandai Xie Street is lined with famous curios stores now,which have become highlights when visitors taking Hutong Tours. It was converted into the first high-grade public bath in Xicheng District of Beijing in 1985. Yandai Xie Street is also an ideal place for those who are interested in collecting the four treasures of the study, (i.e. writing brush, ink stick, ink slab, paper) owing to many calligraphy and painting stores available to visitors, and visitors can purchase works by famous calligraphers on the spot. In addition, a number of famous restaurants are also available on Yandaixie Street. Now Yandai Xie Street has taken on a new look since the renovation in 2007.
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10.Silk Market
Xiushui Street has become the city’s top tourist shopping paradise. 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.
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4. Beijing Hongqiao Market
Beijing Hongqiao Market is also called Pearl Market, where consumers can buy not only beautiful pearls but also seafood, digital products and silk, covering an area of 4,500 square meters. This market consists of 8 floors, where you will find different kinds of products you need.
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2. Nanluoguxiang
Nanluoguxiang is a highly popular tourist attraction in Beijing, but people outside Beijing may not be so familiar with it or even haven't never heared of such a place hidden inside the antiquehutongsnear the center of Beijing. I was one of these guys. But I realized I was a fool as soon as I paced into it by accident, because it is worth traveling to if you’re nowtraveling in Beijing.Read more
5. Donghuamen Night Market
A sight in itself, the bustling night market near Wangfujing Dajie is a veritable food zoo: lamb, beef and chicken skewers, corn on the cob, smelly doufu (tofu), cicadas, grasshoppers, kidneys, quail eggs, snake, squid, fruit, porridge, fried pancakes, strawberry kebabs, bananas, Inner Mongolian cheese, stuffed eggplants, chicken hearts, pita bread stuffed with meat, shrimps–and that's just the start.
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