9. Panjiayuan Market

Location: No 18 Huaweili, Chaoyang District, Beijing

The market lies to the southwest of Panjiayuan Bridge, East 3rd Ring Road South, Chaoyang District. It covers an area of 48,500 square meters, of which 26,000 square meters are for business. It mainly deals in antiques and old articles, handiwork, collections, and decorative articles, with an annual business volume of several hundred million RMB. There are over 4,000 shops in the market, with nearly 10,000 dealers, 60 percent of whom come from 28 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions outside Beijing and over a dozen nationalities such as Han, Hui, Manchu, Miao, Dong, Uygur, Mongolian, and Korean.