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. |