Wangfujing

Wangfujing (Chinese王府井 社区, Pinyin Wángfǔjǐng Shèqū ) is a community population in road district of the city Donghuamen Dongcheng District in Beijing, China. The Wangfujing is one of the best known and most important shopping streets of China. Already during the Ming Dynasty, it was an important trading center; in the later Qing dynasty nobles built their residences in the Wangfujing Street ( Wángfǔ = seat of government of the king, jǐng = wells).

Countless shops, shopping malls and cafés are on the road, the majority is not passable for vehicles. In 1903 the Dong'an market, and there is a Christian church in the street.

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