Apart from the political and cultural center, Beijing also boasts to be the shopping city in More than 13,000 retails stores, endless options and remarkably reasonable prices define adventurous and exotic shopping you'll find in Beijing.
As early as in the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), Beijing was a famous commercial city in world. During the Qing Dynasty, the market in Beijing was brisk. Today shops in Beijing are in a great number, scattered in every corner and goods are sophisticated. Goods on Beijing market are brands, special and new products from various parts of the country.Beijing now has 10 famous shopping streets including the Wangfujing, Dongdan, Longfusi,Xidan, Qianmen and Xiushui streets, and Liulichang Cultural Street. These streets boast modern malls and boutiquesto various kinds of services. What tourists Beijing prefer to are unique handicrafts and cultural relics full of Beijing shops and provide buyflavor, such as cloisonn, jade ware, bronzes and stone tablets with inscriptions, writing brushes, sticks, paper and ink slabs, antiques, paintings, calligraphic works and handicrafts dough figurines, facial masks and kites unique to Beijing.
