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The Xiushui Market is not strange to both Beijing citizens and foreign sightseers.
The market is located at the Xiushui Dongjie, Chaoyang District in Beijing and close to the southeast of the Ritan ambassadorial area. There are 410 stalls in the market. It draws nearly 1,000 business people with its sale volume of more than 100 million yuan per year. The main commodities include garments, silk products and tourist souvenirs. Xuishui Market is a silk street famed both at home and abroad and is one of the products set up after China's reform and opening to the outside world (another is Yabaolu Garment Market, which was also demolished). It was situated at the east of the "first ambassadorial area'', close to the US Embassy in China in the north, the Qijiayuan diplomatic mansions in the west, bordering the Dongdaqiao residential area in the east. Xiushui Market is also known as "embassy area'' since it is close to many embassies nearby.
Through more than 10 years of development, the market becomes one of the comparatively famed commercial streets in Beijing. Here one not only can buy traditional Chinese silk products and fine handicraft, but also various famous brand products from aboard. It draws many foreign shoppers. They bargain with the vendors in broken Chinese or gesture. Many vendors in the market could promote their commodities in simply foreign words or calculators.
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