Famous GZ shopping streets

Enjoying the fame of "shopping paradise", Guangzhou is the most important Commodity distribution center in south China. Take advantage of famous Guangzhou specialty streets.

• Changshou Road: street for jade;
• Daxin Road for folk arts and crafts: Wende Road is for cultural goods such as antiques, calligraphy and pictures, pottery and porcelain, art crafts etc.)
• Tianhe Road for computers;
• Wushan Road for scientific Products;
• Qianjinnan Road for Pets;
• Dongfengxi Road for birds;
• Danan Road for fresh flowers;
• Qingping Road and Shufang Street of Danan Road for aquatic animals;
• Jianglan Road for fishing equipment.

Antique Xiguan Street

Very hard to find but once you get there it is worth it. You know you are getting close when you are surrounded by local women all chanting "change money, change money". This place is old China and I mean everything about this place is old, from the street to the shops to the furniture; even the people selling the goods have been around a long time. Five minutes' walk to this antique street from the Changshou metro station. A long narrow lane in the very old part of town.

Beijing Road

Shopper's paradise. What else can you call it? With most of the shops open from 9:00am to 10:00pm,it offers all day shopping, which is one of the reasons the place is one of Guangzhou's favorite fashion stops. This is obvious on the weekend when a sea of Guangzhouers pack into the 300-meter long street filling the air with shopping fever. With shops covering a wide selection from the top end at Grand Buy, where you can find most overseas brands, to the smaller shops that line the streets and alleys, it's not too hard to find exactly what you're looking for and at the price that fits your budget. Easily accessible by subway with a five-minute walk from the Gong Yuan Qian subway station and just follow the crowds.

Guangzhou's biggest audio and video market

Covering an area of more than 1,200 square meters, the store has more than 100,000 VCD, CD, LD, DVD and tape titles as well as electronics publications.

Located in Guangzhou's busy Nonglin-xialu, the market is operated by a chain-store company under the administration of Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Culture.

Haizhu Square market

For odds and ends, and what's hot and what's not, this is where it's at and a lot cheaper than at Zhuangyuanfang. This is the gift haven and there is no shortage of everything, it's like an ultra mini trade fair. Here like most places, bargaining is the way to go except sometimes the price is right the first time. If you don't know what you want just wander through and see what is available and you'll be amazed at what you see. It's wholesale market but still they don't mind selling little bits. Located directly to the west of Haizhu Square.

Haiyin Book City

Haiyin Book City offers everything in print, Chinese books, foreign books, books on finance, economy, tourism, maps to cities all around the country, computers, fiction, essays, textbooks, all kinds of magazines, children's books, cartoons, how-to books, etc. The prices were reasonable, especially if you purchase in quantity. In general, you could get at least a 20% discount and if you buy more, you could get as much as 40% off.
Add: Haiyin Book Market is located westward of Haiyin Bridge between Dashatou Lu and the Pearl River.

Haiyin Cloth Market

The biggest cloth market in Guangzhou which provides a huge variety of cloth plus tailoring, designing and cloth processing. It is so far the biggest cloth wholesale market in Guangzhou.
Add: Dashatou Lu,200 meters west of Haiyin Bridge.

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