Beijing Wangfujing Pedestrian Street is a well-known commercial street with a long history. It is also called “Gold Street” in Beijing. The street intercrosses the Chang’an Avenue ( Everlasting Peace Avenue) in the south, and is 810 meters long from south to north. The pedestrian street started near the Wangfujing Book Store and ended near the New Dong’an Department Store. There are 765 big or small stores along the street and it is the most poplular commercial street in Beijing nowadays.
The history of Wangfujing Street can be traced back to the Yuan dynasty. To the Ming dynasty, there had been 10 royal mansions and three princes mansions, so the street was called”Royal Mansions” street, which pronounced as “wangfu” in Chinese. In 1905 during the Qing dynasty, the government renamed the street because there was a well in the street. So the name became “Wangfujing”, which means”The Well of Royal Mansion”. There were some legends about the well and now you can see it on the northwest side of the center cross of the street.
During the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the”Dongjiaominxiang” embassy district in the south of Wangfujing was formed. So some banks and business offering services for foreigners were started on Wangfujng Street. In early 20th century, the Wangfujing Street has entered a new commercial era, and has become one of the major commercial districts in Beijing. Nowadays Wangfujing has become a wonderful place where people can do shopping, have dinner, etc.
Wangfujing Street is like a museum, with its extensive and profound convergence of traditional culture. There are lots of stores with ancient Chinese famous brands like “Tongshenghe Shoes Store” and “Shengxifu Hat Store” which had ever made shoes and hats for lots of Chinese leaders.”Dong-lai-shun Hot Pot” ,the most famous hot pot restaurant in Beijing, is also located in the street.
Besides all these ancient brand stores, Wangfujing Street is more like a kaleidoscope, It seems to roam into a shopping paradise when people hanging around here. Since the reform and opening up of China, Wangfujing Street has been changed greatly. There are many newly renovated stores along the street, such as Wangfujing Bookstore, the modern Oriental Plaza and Dong’an Department Store. All of these ancient brand stores and modern shopping malls embody the perfect combination of tradition and modernization of the new central business district.
On September11,1999, Wangfujing Street finished its eight-year-renovation and presented a brand new appearance to all the people in Beijing. After the renovation, the street formed a “cross”. The center of the cross is crossing of ” Golden Fish Alley” from east to west. To the east, there is the street of hotels,such as Wangfu Hotel, Taiwan Hotel, newly opened Regency Hotel and so on. To the west, there is the Donghuamen Snack Street where people can try lots of snacks of Beijing. The flourishing pedestrian Wangfujing Commercial Street is to the south of the cross. And there is an Entertainment Street to the north of it. There is a big Sporting Goods Store named Lisheng, where you can see some huge facilities for some extreme games just n front of the store, The church is located right across the road.
Today’s Wangfujing has become a complex commercial street with shops, sports and leisure places, and catering business. In the future, Wangfujing will be created into a digitalized commercial street of the central business district. It will keep on developing and lead the trend of the development of world commercial streets.
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