Shopping Streets
Zhongshan Road
Xiamen has two shopping streets with relatively concentrated market and shops and good transport facilities for the convenience of tourist shopping. One is located on Zhongshan Road in the old urban area; the other is on Dragon's Head Road, Gulangyu Island.
Zhongshan Road is 1.2 kilometers in length. 243 markets, shops and restaurants are concentrated on this street. Known as one of "China's ten famous streets", Zhongshan Road is the ideal destination in terms of tourist shopping for travelers from home and abroad, for it's a street full of rich national culture of China and unique Fujian custom. Among them, Hualian Shopping Building, Huahui Market, First Department Store, Tianshun Jewelry Shop are the relatively larger ones. Zhongshan Road is compared to Hong Kong's Tongluowan Bay and Shanghai's Nanjing Road.
(4) Dragon's Head Road on Gulangyu Island
Dragon's Head Road boasts 134 enterprises, institutions and private industrial and commercial entities. A number of shops specialized in the sales of handicraft articles, famous scripts and paintings. Both local handicrafts such as bead embroidery, lacquer carvings, color modeling and color porcelain and antique, jade and stone, scripts and paintings as well as chinaware from every part of the country are sold here. There are also many shops selling dried southern food and nuts at the same time.