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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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