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Shangxiajiu Street and Lingnan Culture
Other items include: the Hualin Furniture and Jade
Objects Street; Qingping Road; the Liwan Square, which contains a group of
residential apartment buildings; and a large number of stores selling
stationary.
More than 1,400 years ago, Dharma, an accomplished Indian
monk, came to China as a missionary. His first landing place was at Xiajiu Road
(today's Xilaichudi, the first landing place of the Westerners). The monk then
constructed the Xilai Temple
(today's Hualin Temple), paving the way for the establishment of Chinese Buddhism
Zen and the Shaolin
Temple at Mount Song.
Shangxiajiu Street opened in 1995 and since then, many top state officials
including Jiang
Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Ye Xuanping, and Tung Chee-hwa have visited the
place. The most splendid moment in history is recorded on the huge board in the
middle of the street: In spring of 2001, President Jiang Zemin visited
Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Shopping Street.
Shangxiajiu is one of the three major municipal-level shopping areas of
Guangzhou. The 800-meter-long street is lined with nearly 250 shops.
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