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Commercial development of Dalian has increased rapidly in recent years. Anyone traveling to the city is encouraged to wander around the skyscraping shopping malls and stores. You will find a sea of world-famous fashion brands.
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Dalian has undergone rapid development from the mid 1990s, during which a host of foreign consumer-goods companies have entered China's market. Large scale shopping malls and supermarkets including MYCALL (Japan), Parkson (Malaysia), Carrefour (France), Wal Mart (U.S.) have been built. The time-honored Friendship Stores (a famous department store brand in China's planned economy period) have established many new shopping centers and stores throughout the city. Therefore, you can find numerous shopping choices in the city.
What to Buy：
Clothes
Seafood
Fruits
Artworks
Clothes
Dalian is known as Fashion City where the annual Dalian International Fashion festival is held. If you are lucky to travel to the city around September, you will find this festival venue a paradise to buy the most fashionable clothes from all over the world.
Seafood
Bordering the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea that foster the growth of an array of sea life, Dalian exports much of its seafood to different countries and regions in the world. Locals consider the eight treasures are sea cucumber, abalone, scallop, prawn, mussel and oyster, etc.
Fruits
Dalian is renowned in China for its apple harvest and produces more than 100 kinds. The cherries, peaches and grapes grown here are also popular in the northern part of China.
Artworks
There is a variety of artworks sculpted out of shells. The products included hanging paintings, screens, lamps and ornaments. Furthermore, Embroidery and glasses ornament products are also popular choices.
Where to Buy:
Qingniwan
Tianjin Walking Street
Xi'an Lu
Qingniwan area
Just like Beijing's Wangfujing and Shanghai's Nanjing Lu, Qingniwan area close to Dalian Railway Station, is a commercial landmark of the city and a popular tourist destination. With a good location in front the railway station, a group of large shops and malls make this area the busiest shopping center in the city.
Tianjin Walking Street
It is a century-old shopping street with numerous shops and stalls, recently years, Dalian turned it into an extravagant European style shopping area with all sorts of well-known brands housed in a great number of skyscrapers. The top-end shopping building, Friendship Shopping City, is on this street.
Xi'an Lu
This is a popular choice for locals with many supermarkets including Carrefour, Parkson, Wal Mart and other domestic retail outlets.
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