Suntory, formerly known as Tiancheng Gold Store, was founded by Stanley Ho at 1933. At first, it was to process some gold and silver ornaments for customers. Because of its excellent workmanship, good color and sufficient quantity, customers come to make jewelry in an endless stream, and its business has gradually expanded, from simple processing to production, sales and operation, and the acquisition and consignment of jewelry and jade articles have increased, forming the characteristics of "front shop and back factory" and "integration of industry and commerce". Later, because the bank specializes in buying and selling gold and silver, "Tiancheng" changed its business to the purchase and consignment of jewelry, jade articles and antiques, and also operated clothing, watches and glasses. When it was a public-private partnership, "Tiancheng" was renamed as "Dehua Street Volkswagen Consignment Store".

In the early 1980s, it was renamed as Zhengzhou Suntory Shopping Mall, and the original 260-square-meter storefront was transformed into a four-story building. Once again, it took gold jewelry as its main business, retained the purchase and consignment business, and increased the distribution of household appliances. "Suntory" soon started among Zhengzhou citizens. From the late 1980s to the middle and late 1990s, "Suntory" advertised on TV stations, and the "Suntory" gold wares were deeply rooted in the hearts of Zhengzhou citizens. Suntory gold wares have good color and reasonable price. Girls and young women only recognize "Suntory" when they buy gold and silver jewelry in Zhengzhou. Essence optical shop, formerly known as "Hemingzhai" optical shop in Kaifeng, was founded by two shopkeepers, Li and Li Qindian, on March 1930. The shopkeeper spent 200 yuan to buy mahogany as a signboard, which read "Essence Glasses Shop", meaning to take its essence and discard its dross. Since then, Zhengzhou has the first optical shop to go to refractive optometry.

On the eve of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Gu, commander of the Kuomintang's Third Theater, liked to wear glasses and was introduced to the elite glasses company to make stone mirrors. Gu was very satisfied after trying it on. He wrote: "The products are genuine and the elite glasses are well-known in Henan". Since then, elite glasses have become famous.

After the liberation of Zhengzhou, the municipal government merged Hendry Optical Store, Sansan Optical Store, Dabaohua Optical Store, Baosanzhai Optical Store and Essence Optical Store into a public-private joint venture and named it Zhengzhou Watch Optical Store. The name of the elite optical shop in the central store is still the essence.

1975 Zhengzhou watch glasses specialty store was expanded into a five-story business building, which is 40 times larger than the business area before it was run concurrently. The accuracy of the lenses prepared by it is the only unit in the province that reaches the national standard in the national quality travel activities. "Essence Optical Shop" has also been certified as "China Time-honored Brand". The business building has five floors, with 2 140 employees, operating more than 5,000 varieties and annual sales of nearly 20 million yuan. It is the largest watch glasses store in China.