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Xiushui Street is one of the famous clothing markets in Beijing. It attracts domestic and foreign tourists with varied styles, colors and materials as well as a cheap price. You can find a number of duplicates of clothing in traditional Chienese style such as clothes,caps,gloves. Enjoy bargains with sellers and pleasant surprise of finding a real treasure if you are lucky enough. Now, Xiushui Street is in reconstruction.
When you wander along Beijing’s Xiushui Street, you will see that most of the stores promote their goods in various languages. They offer a wide variety, including curtains, tablecloths, bedding, earrings, and watches as well as clother, inexpensive caps, and shoes of excellent workmanship. If you want to buy something, you should check with more than one store and haggle over the price.It is several hundred meters long and is also known as the Leading Foreign Trade Market. The street lies at the southeastern corner of the diplomatic quarter in Beijing’s Chaoyang Dsitrict and has many hotels and offices of foreign-funded enterprises.

Xiushui Street used to be a wholesale market where businessmen from Eastern European countries purchased clothes, and all business was conducted in English and Russian. Today, the street is a tourist spot where people speaking many languages go shopping, both wholesale and retail.

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