Hangzhou Where to buy
Hangzhou is yet another Chinese "shopping paradise". The city offers a superb collection of local crafts, rare arts and other souvenirs.
Hangzhou Longjing Tea (Dragon Well Tea) is considered China's best. It is not only famous for its unique green color, fragrant aroma, sweet taste, and flat appearance, but is also regarded as a health elixir. The tea falls into different grades; the best is the first pick of a year, normally in late March or early April. Besides its good quality, Longjing Tea also enjoys a famous long history. If you are interested in tea culture and history, Meijiawu Village in West Lake District is the ideal spot where you can have a cup of tea, watch a tea ceremony, and select tea under professional guidance.
Qinghefang Street, one of the most famous historic streets in Hangzhou, reflects features of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Most preserved buildings are from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Strolling on this street, you will be attracted by the antique buildings and local crafts, such as silk parasols, brocades, noted Zhang Xiaoquan scissors and Hangzhou fans.
Yan'an Road is considered the Number One Street in Hangzhou. Three-thousand-meter-long Yanan Road running between the north and south sections of Hangzhou has become the city's commercial center. Along the road are included the grand buildings of the Zhejiang Provincial Great Hall of the People, Hangzhou Culture Center, Victory Theatre, International Mansion, Hangzhou Department Store, Hangzhou Grand Hotel, and Haifeng Western Restaurant. Bordering the north end of Yanan Road is Wulin Square, the new center of culture and commerce where towers and skyscrapers are springing up, including Hangzhou Telecom Building, Zhejiang Provincial Exhibition Hall, Hangzhou Shopping Center, Hangzhou Theatre, and Zhejiang Provincial Science and Technology Museum.
Hangzhou's Silk Town is one of the new tourism lines called as "Picturesque South Yangtze and Landscape of Zhejiang". The street block is the heart and the golden calling card of the ancient and historical Silk City Hangzhou.
It is located at the area between Fengqi Road on the south and Tiyuchang Road on north, Xinhua Road on the east and Jiankang Western Road on the west with length of 1150m and area of about 25,000 sq.m, the area is the center of tourism city Hangzhou. The architectures on the street are of classical and elegant styles, deep cultural atmosphere with various kinds of silk merchandises. The street block incarnates the graceful and the softness beauty of "silk road".
Xinhua Road's "Ming Houses" area had been renewed as "Exquisite Silk Products Street" in 2002, thus made the unique blend of elegance of the famous ancient Ming Dynasty architecture and exquisite silk fashion product shops.
There are businesses range covers silk fabrics, clothes, artworks, tourist souvenirs, neckties, scarves and various raw materials. These products are sharing the markets at home and abroad. The street block is the largest of its kind in China; it has been awarded various honors by bureaus of provincial and municipal levels, as well as enlisted by the state's former Domestic Trade Bureau as a key wholesale liaison spot.
As silk is the symbol of oriental culture and represents the speciality and tradition of Hangzhou, the Silk Town is continuing to discover the connotation of silk culture, searching for new high quality products, improving management and marketing. The Silk Town will be expanded into new National Silk Shopping Center, Information Center for New Silk Products, China Silk Fashion Center and China Silk Culture Exhibition Hall soon. The town will be a must-go place for tourists from home and abroad.
Hangzhou Tower Shopping Center is located at No. 1, Wulin Square, the most flourished business, culture and traffic center in the heart of Hangzhou; it is also a well-known department store in China. With the bold introduction of advanced management techniques from home and abroad, the department store has established a highly effective market management organization and mechanism, provided high quality goods aiming the people of medium and high buying power, which has won the favor of customers for over ten years.
Hangzhou Tower Shopping Center ranked very high among the big retail enterprises in China, with two-digit growth in profit for more than 10 consecutive years. It is called the myth in the Chinese commercial field.
As a department store selling high quality goods, there are lots of world's renowned brands such as Cartier, Burberry, Hugo Boss, Ermenegildo Zegna, Bally and Dunhill etc., so that the Hangzhou Tower is the first to introduce the most number of brands, top update speed, highest turnover and overall strength among department stores in China. In autumn 2004, more famous brands came here such as Louis Vuitton, Christine Dior, Ferragamo and Escada and so on.
The Hangzhou Tower Shopping Center has been praised by many privately-owned enterprise owners, company managers and professionals from financial, cultural, educational, communication and IT sectors in Hangzhou and all over Zhejiang Province for its high service quality. About one-third of the money spent annually here is from VIP customers, who are having very high purchasing power.
Consummated customer management system network has been built-in. A series of customized and human-oriented services such as customer's manager, VIP reception and information offices etc.; which can make you feel the posh!
Intime Department Store Located at No. 530, Yan'an Road. Zhejiang Intime Department Store Co., Ltd. was founded and opened to business in 1998. With invested 400 million RMB Yuan, Intime Department Store is the first of its retail investment project in Hangzhou and located at heart of the city----south of Wulin Square, with Hangzhou Tower and Hangzhou Department Stores just around the corner. It is one of the largest department store buildings in Hangzhou, which is included general merchandises (with more than 60,000 high quality commodities), restaurants, and amusement and leisure purposes. The building on the street side (Yan'an Road) has length of 160 m and total business area occupies about 31,500 sq.m; with more than 3000 staffs of various ranks, 28 escalators and lifts for passengers and goods purposes; as well as high-tech fire protection, security monitor, computerized communication, acoustic and cashier systems, which make you feel safe and comfortable inside.
Intime's business philosophy is "Adopting New Life Aesthetics". Through three years effort, with its strong capital foundation, scientific administration, highly effective mechanism as well as young, vigorous and able service team, Intime Department Store has attained the favor from the public. Now the average clients' flux per day (weekday) is more than 30 thousand and about 80 thousand in weekend, of which woman's customers and people ages below 30 occupied 62.3% and 71.8% respectively according to some surveys. It becomes Hangzhou's most favorite and fastest developing department store.
Wulin Road Fashion Dress Street has a length of 1650 m. Its lies between Qingchun Road on the south and Tiyuchang Road on the north; with spur tracks such that an avenue of length 580 m that goes from east to west between Yan'an Road and Huancheng Western Road, Shihuqiao Road of length 280 m that goes from east to west between Yan'an Road and Wulin Road and Longyou Road of length 245 m that goes from west to east between Huancheng Western Road and Wulin Road. The area is one of the main leisure and shopping spots in downtown Hangzhou.
The area is the No.1 street for women's fashion in Hangzhou; it looks like a glamorous star galaxy that shines the vast vigorous fashion market in Hangzhou.
Originally Wulin Road wasn't a well-known street even for Hangzhou people. But when the commercial area has been built up and the opening of shopping centers such as Hangzhou Tower, Intime (Yintai) and Hangzhou Department Stores, the nearby Wulin Road became the place for new bosses to run small shops selling women's fashion to meet the increasing demand. For all these reasons, Wulin Road Fashion Dress Street is known as "Woman's Street" all over the country.
To follow the trend of fashion, the Municipal Committee and Government set up the idea that to make Hangzhou as the "Capital of Women's Fashion in China" and make the city as a high quality brand in women's fashion. Naturally, with so many vogue style fashion stores, Wulin Road becomes the main show window for Hangzhou's fashion scene. As the Municipal Government's increasing ambition in making the city as the capital of fashion now, the business owners here are joining forces together to resound it by making the street to have tourism, shopping and leisure functions.
There are increasing numbers of fashion stores after the street's renewal (which has about 798 businesses presently). With the introduction of renowned brands from home and abroad as well as the influx private investments, Wulin Road has become the fashion gathering venue in Hangzhou, thus make high investment prospect for Hangzhou's fashion business.
Undoubtedly, with its good geographical position as one of the best tourism cities in China, the Wulin Road Fashion Dress Street is the golden business card of Hangzhou's commercial landscape and representing the women's fashion scene in the country.
Hangzhou Department Store Located at No. 260, Yan'an Road, on the southeast of Wulin Square in the busiest commercial district of Zhejiang Province, Hangzhou Department is there.
With a total business area of about 22,000 sq.m, the department store was opened to service on 1st November 1989 and the new southern block was commenced on the same day in 1999 with corridors link between the two blocks. The buildings give a modern looking and the corridors inside give smooth feeling, thus give the overall impression of the tinge of modern commercialism and popular culture.
Hangzhou Department Store's business idea is principally of middle class and quality brand oriented, and "Service is the Top Priority" is the service philosophy as well as "Return if not Satisfied", "26 Business Service Ideas", "56 Good Service Measures" and various internal staff training and awarding schemes etc.
By using the modern internet technology, Hangzhou Department Store has implemented computerized administration and endeavored to improve customer service, thus attained high business reputation. Since the opening, its rapid development and growth in profit has made a name for it amongst the retail enterprises in China; the total annual turnover has been ranked first among department stores in Zhejiang Province in recent years.
Hangzhou Department Store is a comprehensive shopping center that integrated the functions of shopping, leisure, F & B and amusement etc. With four levels and a basement, there are 13 categories that are divided according to their kinds. The basement of the northern block is a supermarket; first floor: leather, shoes, cosmetic products, cigarettes, liquor and invigorant products are sold; second floor are women's fashion and wool products; third floor sells men's fashion and leisure sports wear and fourth floor has five functions such as food plaza (which is having different tastes from various places of China), computer games (the venue is one of the largest of its kind in Hangzhou), children's playground (which is a playground for small children), artistic photography shop for children in which the best for record of their growing up course, and photo kiosk for adults and so on.
The first floor of the southern block sells clocks, watches and gold jewelries; second floor are children's wear, stationery and fabric products; third floor is telecommunication market and fourth floor is electrical appliances. There are corridors link between blocks in the 2nd and 3rd floors respectively. With all of these goodies that give customers a great place for high quality shopping and pleasure.
Jiefang Road Department Store is located at Jiefang Road on the southern downtown of Hangzhou. Its former name was Hangzhou Emporium Company Limited, which was founded in 1918. It was at first a small store that had a business area of 720 sq.m and sold just about 1000 kinds of goods with an annual turnover of about 3 million RMB Yuan, and gradually expanded and developed into 18,000 sq.m today and sells more than 50,000 kinds of commodities with total turnover of more than 800 million RMB Yuan annually. Now the department store is integrated business, tourism and import and export trade as a whole. Its wide range of commodities that suit everyone's need and this is also the business philosophy of the company.
As a grand shopping center, Jiefang Road Department Store has expanded into the new Jiebai Department Store New Century Business Tower nearby, which is owned by the Hangzhou Jiebai Department Store Holdings Co., Ltd. (established in 1992), and formerly the exhibition hall of the goods in 1918. The company is the largest and the oldest business group in Zhejiang Province, now it has 10 subsidiaries, 4 holding companies, a licensed league store, and 10 shareholder companies, which they are engaging import and export trade, financial, tourism, securities, processing and repair industries. Jiefang Road Department Store has a business area of 18,000 sq.m and more than 2000 staffs with 22 merchandise departments that sell about 50,000 kinds of goods.
Supermarkets
Metro Supermarket
No. 355 East Genshan Road
Carrefour Supermarket
No.135 Yan'an Road
Jia You Supermarket
No. 86 Qingchun Road
No. 333 Fuchun Road
No. 58 East Qingchun Road
Wanjiafu Supermarket
No.38 Qingchun Road
No.64 Wangjiang Road
No.38 Xintang Road
No.2 Shuangling Road
Shopping Mall
Yuanhua Plaza
Near to Hubin Yi (First) Park
