Shopping in Beijing

Beijing is shopping heaven. The city offers every shopping experience imaginable: high-end designer boutiques and vast department stores, specialty shops, used goods, antique emporiums, book fairs, jade, pearl and silk stores, antique books and calligraphy sets, flea-markets, modern malls, art galleries, as well as traditional, down-to-earth, wholesale fruit, fish and meat markets.

Prices are low and bargaining is de rigeur. If you were born to shop, Beijing is for you.