Wangfujing refers to Wangfujing Street, which starts from East Chang 'an Avenue in the south and ends at China Art Museum in the north, with a total length of about three li. It is the most famous business district in Beijing and is known as the first commercial street in China. Wangfujing's daily necessities, hardware, electrical materials, clothing, shoes and hats, jewelry, diamonds, gold and silver jewelry, etc. , dazzling, huge sales of goods. It is called the land of gold.
Wangfujing Street has an 8 10 meter long main street. The ground is covered with red granite and there is no partition on the road. Beijing department store was completed and opened in September. 1955. It is the flagship store of Wangfujing Department Store, known as the first store in New China. Today, Wangfujing not only has large fashion shopping malls such as Oriental Xintiandi and Sun Dong 'an Plaza, but also has special professional commercial buildings such as Gongmei Building, Foreign Language Bookstore and New China Children's Women's Clothing Store, as well as old Beijing brands such as Shengxifu, Donglaishun, Quanjude and Silian Hairdressing.
Features of Wangfujing Street
Wangfujing Street starts from Art Museum East Street in the north and ends at Chang 'an Street in the south. Yuan called Dingzi Street, which was the widest at that time, with a width of 24 steps. In the 15th year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty, there were ten palaces on the east side of the street, hence the name Wang Fu Tenth Street. It was called Wangfujing Street in Qing Dynasty, named after the fragrant well used by Wang Fu in the street. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu, a stone slag road was built.
Rows of gorgeous everywhere, full of splendor, not enough shopping malls, not enough beautiful scenery, countless tourists, unexpected changes. It is the most dazzling platform in this city, displaying the exquisite goods of Wuhua Tianbao. It is the commercial center with the highest popularity index in the city, which promotes the traditional and modern commercial culture of China, condenses the painstaking efforts and wisdom of businessmen for hundreds of years, and always meets the people's growing demand for commodity production and sales services.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Wangfujing