Shopping
Beijing, Capital city of Five Dynasties has history of years, known as metropolitan area with prosperous economy and developed business since olden days. Long ago many skilled craftsmen had settled in the area and passed on their exceptional skills through generations. Traditional handiwork with distinctive eastern features can be found in many business markets and streets. Four excellent traditional handicrafts of Beijing are Lacquer, Ivory Carving, Cloisonné and Jade. In addition, artificial flowers, silk, snuff bottles having pictures inside, pearls and curios are also merit buy and liked by all tourists. Confectionaries and Candied Fruits of entire range are mouth watering and excellent gifts for friends. These products are easily available in all supermarkets. A Visitor can also find plenty of huge and medium sized shopping malls which are scattered throughout the city. These shopping centers glow with multihued vigor. Four major business zones in Beijing are Dongsi, Xidan, Dajie and Qianmen.
Curio city, a largest distribution center for curio in Asia having 500 stores which deal with paintings, ancient porcelain, jade, bronze ware, carving, calligraphy, clocks, jewellery, carpet and ancient furniture. It’s like a huge museum which will dazzle anyone’s eyes with these olden art treasures. Regular exhibitions are taken place every year for displaying the art treasures and curios. Numerous departmental stores are available in Beijing which offers products that range from household electrical, cosmetics, fashions and jewellery. Many of these goods are world popular brands linked with highest quality. Customers can pay by mode of credit cards at these stores for their purchases. Most of these stores, for the expediency of customers have Any Time Money counters. There are plenty of highly reputed Feature Stores in existence which are liked by foreign visitors and locals as well. Feature Stores could be found at Liulichang, Dazhalan, Wangfujing and some traditional business areas.
Supermarkets are well-liked and extremely admired in the country. There are lots of big supermarkets in Beijing and few of them are sequence or chain stores. Supermarkets sell top quality products which are not expensive and much cheaper than any other shopping centers. Food, clothes, commodities, electrical household and domestic appliances and books are available in supermarkets as well as credit cards can also be used. The wholesale market is one of the most well-liked shopping places in Beijing. The goods sold are not expensive and much cheaper than in large shopping centers. There are lots of wholesale markets with all kinds of commodities in Beijing. One can also bargain for the goods there at extremely low prices. Credit cards are not used in wholesale markets. One should also be careful of the pickpockets as the markets are crowded whole day.
In Beijing two big commercial zones are there for costume wholesale markets. One is near Beijing Zoo as well as another is in Musiyan. The zoo commercial zone in Beijing is the biggest distribution hub in Northern China. There are lots of wholesale markets advertising and selling brand new fashions, men’s suites, shoes and little ornaments like Dongding, Tianhao City, Tianle, Zhonghe as well as Jinkai Deli.