Suzhou Shopping

Travel in Suzhou, there are also many Shopping Streets that offering you shopping, such as

Shiquan Street ,Guanqian Pedestrianized Shopping Street:

Guanqian Street

is named after the Mysterious Taoist Temple. With a history of more than 150 years, it is well-known for many one-century characteristic shops such as Daoxaingcun Confectionery Shop, Qiantaixiang Silk Shop, Huangtianyuan Round Dumpling Shop. Its catering street,which is located between Taijian Laneand Bifeng Lane, is well-known for Suzhou-style Dishes. And the Mysterious Taoist Temple, one of National Key Preservation Units, attracts tens of thousands of vistors both home and abroad with its profound Taoism culture.

After one-century ups and downs, Guanqian commercial center nowadays has been completely renewed by the lead of CPC Suzhou Municipal Committee and Municipal Government with huge capital.The reconstructed Guanqian Street has been becoming a commercial, cultural, religionary and travel center with rich local color, sound traffic network, perfect infrastructure, rational overall commercial arrangement and excellent investment environment.

Guanqian Street

It is warmly welcoming domestic and oversea visitors with totally-new image.

Shilu Pedestrianized Shopping Street is located in Jinchang District, it is named after “ Stone Road” in English as it was paved with stones in late Qing Dynasty. It is said it had already been very prosperous in ancient time. Since late 2003, Suzhou Municiapal Government has injected a huge amount of capital to reconstruct the street, aiming to forge it one of the best shopping centers in Jiangsu Province and top-ranking in China by integrating its modern image with ancient culture of Suzhou. The project was completed by the end of 2003 and open to public on New Year's Day of 2004.

The renewed street is sprinkled with large-sized musical fountains,towering trees, beautiful neon lights and clean rivers. The commercial arrangement of Shilu pedestrianized shopping street has a new adjustment as well.

It is becoming a beautiful scenery for home and foreign travelers at the time of acting as a shopping center.

Shiquan Street :

Shiquan Street is located in hotel area in ancient downtown of Suzhou,famous Nanlin Restaurant,Suzhou Restaurant ,Nanlin Hotel as well as the classical garden of The Master-of-Nets Garden are on this street.As tourism of Suzhou booming and old streets being reconstructed ,the rebuilt Shiquan Street looks brand-new.

There strew many Ming-and-Qing-Dynasty-style architectures including characteristic restaurants and craftwork shops,such as restaurant dealing in fish-head soup,teahouse featured culture and catering of Wu ,mountain-city chaffy dish with west China flavor,Japanese Restaurant,Corean Restaurant,Corean barbecue,Guangzhou-style dish,Huaiyang-style dish,etc,which are scramble for by both home and oversea travelers.Also,Shiquan Street is well-known for its craftworks like Suzhou Embroidery,chinaware antique,calligraphy and painting, chinaware,silk,inscriptions,jade,rosewood articles,there are everything that you expect to find.

Suzhou Shiquan Street

now has become a far-famed characteristic street for its craftworks and restaurants.

Xinfeng Lane

It is to be restored and become a special street with cafes and pubs. Stores in the street are busy with decoration now. People can enjoy the leisure life there after doing shopping. The formal opening of Shilu pedestrianized shopping street also stimulate consumers' popular enthusiasm on the market at night in the Shilu commercial area.

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