Shopping in Shanghai
Local Specialties and Souvenirs
Briefing
If you are fond of shopping, it will be an excellent choice for you to come to Shanghai. It is renowned as "Shopping Paradise" and "the Oriental Paris". There are “Four Bustling Cities" in Shanghai: Yuyuan Shopping City, Xujiahui Shopping City, New Shanghai Shopping City and Jiali Sleepless City. Yuyuan Shopping City is the center for specialist Chinese goods, where you can buy small articles, local crafts, antiques, jade wares and gold and silver jewelry. Among the local products, Gu Embroidery, which is also called Luxiang Yuan Embroidery, from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is now used in producing clothes, ornaments and bedding. Dongtai Road Antique Market is a very famous market, which is dealing mainly in the porcelains, jade wares, bronze wares, wooden wares, calligraphy and paintings and embroidery utensils. Every year, it receives many tourists from home and aboard.Cultural Street at Fuzhou Road: Traditional paper, ink, quilled pens, ink stands, professional books, stationery and so on.
Shop Index:
Elegant Art Gallery, Shanghai
Add: No. 97 Shui Cheng South Road, Shanghai 200336, China
Tel: 86 21 6208 2788
Fax: 86 21 6209 9767
Tourist Souvenirs Shopping Building
Add: No. 558, East Nanjing Road
Shanghai Fine Arts Articles Shop
Add: No. 402, Fuzhou Road Tel: 63528706
Daily Articles Shopping
Shop Index:
Clothing Street at Huating Road
Garments of low price fashions.
Hardware Street at Beijing East Road
Hardware, electrical appliances and materials machine spare parts, accessories and electrical tools.
Flowers & Birds Market at Jiangyin Road
Flowers, plants, fish, insects, birds and miniature pot scenarios.
Shanghai Cybermart
Add: No. 282Huaihai Zhong Lu
Metro: Huangpi Nan Lu