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The Most Famous Ten Shopping Streets in China
Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Causeway Bay or East Point is one of the major shopping districts in Hong Kong. It contains many trendy shops carrying both locally made fashion and products from Europe, the United States and Japan. It includes the 13-storey Japanese department store Sogo and Times Square, an indoor shopping complex. There are also smaller malls such as World Trade Center, Hang Lung Center, Windsor House, Fashion Walk, Fashion Island, Lee Gardens and Lee Gardens Two. As such, it is a popular social spot for young people.
Nanjing Road, Shanghai
Nanjing Road is located in the city center, running in a west-east direction. Its eastern section is in Huangpu district and extends from the Bund west to People's Square. The western section begins at People's Square and continues westward towards Jing'an district. Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai and one of the world's busiest shopping streets. Hundreds of shops, many with a rich history are located in the street.
Chunxi Road, Chengdu
Chunxi Road is the most crowded shopping district in Chengdu which can host a million visitors on summer weekends. The shops in the street sell brand name foreign goods and their Chinese counterpart. The road has been redeveloped around a group of plazas stretching out across three or four city blocks, which include high and low-class shopping districts, restaurants and bars and hundreds of other shops.
Wangfujing Street, Beijing
Located in the Dongcheng district of Beijing, Wangfujing Street is one of the most famous shopping streets in Beijing. It is home to approximately 280 famous Beijing brands, such as Tongshenghe shoe shop, Shengxifu hat store and Wuyutai tea house. A photo studio which took formal photos of the first Chinese leadership and the New China Woman and Children Department Store helped established by Soong Ching Ling (Madame Sun Yat-sen) are also located on the street.
Ximending, Taipei
Ximending has been called the "Harajuku of Taipei" and the "Shibuya of Taipei". It is the source of Taiwan's fashion, subculture, and Japanese culture. This area is in the northeastern part of Wanhua district in Taipei and it is also the most important consumer district in the Western district of Taipei. The well-known Ximending Pedestrian Area was the first pedestrian area built in Taipei and is the largest in Taiwan.
Beijing Road, Guangzhou
Beijing Road is central axis of ancient Guangzhou city and the most prosperous commercial distributing center in the history. Many time-honored shops of China and old and famous stores of Guangzhou are located here, including Yushan Market, earliest food market in Guangzhou, century-old Chen Li Ji, Tai Ping Guan, and San Duo Xuan stores, and Xindaxin Company, one of the most famous department stores in Guangzhou in 1940s. All these old and famous stores familiar to the Cantonese have witnessed the historic changes and civilization progress of Guangzhou for long.
Jiefangbei, Chongqing
Jiefangbei stands in the most prosperous downtown center of Chongqing. It is the center of the city marked as Chongqing's commercial heart. It is isolated by broad, paved pedestrian square and numerous glassy office skyscrapers and high-rise hotels, reminiscent of New York's or Tokyo's Times Square district. Around Jiefangbei Shopping Square there are more than 3,000 stores, more than two dozen large malls and shopping centers, dozens of star-graded hotels, and offices such as banks, stock markets, trade and finance companies, postal and telecommunication services, and places of entertainment.
Jianghan Street, Wuhan
Wuhan Jianghan Street, with over one hundred year's history, is one of the five most famous commercial streets in China. There is a widely variety of things to choose from, not only referring to goods but also services concerning to finance, insurance and food. The buildings on the both sides of the street are of various kinds of styles, such as Byzantinism, classicalism, European style, Rome style. Many of them are over one hundred years old. Roaming on Jianghan Walking Street at night, people can enjoy the enchanting night scenery.
Hunan Road, Nanjing
Hunan Road to Nanjing is Nanjing Road to Shanghai. The several hundred meters long street is lined with impressive skylines. There are hundreds of clothes shops, department stores and up-market restaurants and many well-known international brand-names can be found in this street. The Shiziqiao Food Street in this area is a paradise for gourmets.
Central Avenue, Harbin
In North China, Harbin Central Avenue is as famous as the Bund of Shanghai. Strongly featured by the western architecture, Harbin Central Avenue perhaps in north China is the most typical tourist destination to understand the development history of North China. Nearly 300 years of western architectural history can be thoroughly exhibited on this special avenue. It is the largest and longest pedestrian street in Asia and the better place in Harbin for leisure, amusement, shopping and tour.
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