With a long history and rich resources, Hangzhou boasts the reputation of City of Silk and Capital of Tea. Since ancient times numerous merchants have gathered here to build Hangzhou into a shopping Heaven. Renowned home and abroad, traditional handicrafts are not only made elaborately, but also closely follow the latest fashion with high qualities. Adhering to their features, some noted traditional local specialties such as Hangzhou Silk, West Lake Dragon Well Tea, Wang Xingji Fans develop new products continually. The newly emerging Hangzhou style women's garment attracts people's eyes by its new, fashionable, delicate and beautiful styles.

Traditional Shopping resorts in Hangzhou are at Wulin Square and Yan'an Road, where the largest department stores, shopping centers and over 100 world-brand exclusive shops are located. Besides you cannot miss several business specialty streets and professional market places where you can find distinctive and worthy bargains among an incredible variety of products.

Shopping Resorts
Specialty Streets
Xinhua Road Silk Street (China Silk Town)
Qinghefang History Street
Wulin Road Fashionable Women's Garment Street
Wushan Road Antique and Handicraft Night Fair

Large Stores
Hangzhou Mansion Shopping Center--commodities of moderate and top grades 1 Wulin Square
Zhejiang Intime Department Store--new,fashionable and youthful 530 Yan'an Road
Hangzhou Lane Crawford Store--commodities of top grade 619 Yan'an Road

Large Supermarkets
Metro 355 Genshan Road
Carrefour 135 Yan'an Road
Auchan 213 Daguan Road
Legovo 28 Desheng Road
Wumei 298 Wenyi Road
Centuray Lianhua 86 Qingchun Road
Marketplaces and Book Shops
Hangzhou International Tourist Commodities Market-- porcelain and small commodities 61 Nanfu Road
Hangzhou Folk Collection Market-- calligraphy and painting,porcelain and ancient coins 17 Yesutang Lane
Cultural Relic Supervised Product Exchange Market--jade articles,antiques,porcelain and so on 14 Yueguan Lane
Zhejiang Foreign Language Bookstore--books of Chinese and foreign languages 466 Fengqi Road
Hangzhou Qingchun Road Bookstore Shopping Center--large scale and multiple choices 217 Qingchun Road