With a long history and rich resources, Hangzhou boasts the reputation of City of Silk and Capital of Tea. Since ancient times numerous merchants have gathered here to build Hangzhou into a shopping Heaven. Renowned home and abroad, traditional handicrafts are not only made elaborately, but also closely follow the latest fashion with high qualities. Adhering to their features, some noted traditional local specialties such as Hangzhou Silk, West Lake Dragon Well Tea, Wang Xingji Fans develop new products continually. The newly emerging Hangzhou style women's garment attracts people's eyes by its new, fashionable, delicate and beautiful styles.

Traditional Shopping resorts in Hangzhou are at Wulin Square and Yan'an Road, where the largest department stores, shopping centers and over 100 world-brand exclusive shops are located. Besides you cannot miss several business specialty streets and professional market places where you can find distinctive and worthy bargains among an incredible variety of products.

Introduction of Local Specialties
West Lake Dragon Well Tea
With a history over 1200 years, West Lake Longjin Tea tops Chinese Ten Renowned Teas for its” green color, fragrant aroma, nice shape and sweet taste”. It can be divided into five categories including Lion(Shifeng), Dragon(Longjin), Cloud(Yunqi), Tiger(Hupao) and Mei(Meijiawu), in which Shifeng is of the first grade and "AforeTomb-Sweeping Day Tea" is the best.
West Lake Tea Shop 187 Hefang Street Bus 8,35 and 15

Wangxinji Fans
Famous as Elegant Hangzhou Fans in the Song Dynasty,Wangxingji Fansincludes 15 categories in which black paper fans and sandalwood fansare the most renowned.It not only sells well in China,but also find itsway into over 50 countries and regions in the world.
Wangxinji Fans Shop 203 Hefang Street Bus 8,35 and 15

Hangzhou Silk
Hangzhou has a long history in producing silk which covers 14categories namely silk, satin,  floss, slub, crape, damask silk, gauze, voileand so on. It is far sold to over 100 countries and regions. In 1926 DuJinsheng Brocade won a golden medal at Philadelphia International Expoin America with a multicoloured brocade landscape picture.
China Silk Town Xinhua Road and Jiankang Road Bus 8, 11 and 28

West Lake Silk Umbrella
Taking bamboo as frames and silk as cover, West Lake Silk Umbrella is called the flower of West Lake for its beautiful style. Now it has more than 10 categories including daily silk umbrellas, rainbow umbrellas, dancing umbrellas and acrobatics silk umbrellas, etc.
Sales Center of Paradise Umbrella 72 Middle Jianguo Road Bus 7, 11 and 29

Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors
With a history of over 300 years and featured by even steel inlay, fine grinder, sharp blade, Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors enjoys high reputation home and abroad and is acknowledged as King of Chinese Scissors.
Zhang Xiaoquan Scissors Shop 2 Houshi Street(next to Hefang Street) Bus 8,38 and 814