Department Stores China: Wangfujing Street Beijing With One Of The Best Department Stores In China.

An impressive front to one of the most famous department stores in China, that of the Wangfujing Department Store in Beijing. The gold color Chinese characters above the entrance proclaims its title, and at the front of the entrance, there is a memorial statue to one of its valued and respected employees. Many people visiting the department store for the first time take a look at the Memorial Statue, for it is not often that a Department Store in China, or anywhere else in the world, honors one of its employees in such a prominent way.

Many of the Chinese shopping streets have their position established in the title given to the street or the store. There is, or was, the No 1 Friendship Store in Shanghai, and Wangfujing the No 1 shopping street in Beijing. Many streets in China have distinctive names, such as 'food street', where all the shops or stalls are competing for the same customer, but Wangfujing Street has a wide selection of shops to attract the visitors to Beijing; It is a famous street with famous stores.

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