Chunxi Road is located in Chunxi Road Street, Jinjiang District, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province. It is lively and bustling, with about 700 commercial outlets and an area of approximately 220000 square meters. It is known as a Chinese characteristic commercial street in the industry.
Chunxi Road was built by warlord Yang Sen in 1924. At first, it was named "Senwei Road" due to Yang Sen's title of "General Senwei". Later, it was renamed Chunxi Road, taking inspiration from the story in the Tao Te Ching: "The crowd is bustling, like enjoying a prison, like climbing a spring platform". The biggest feature of Chunxi Road is that it gathers various specialty stores of numerous brands, as well as numerous Chinese time-honored shopping malls, making it a preferred shopping destination for out of town tourists and local white-collar workers.
Business district format
Compared with other commercial districts in Chengdu, the biggest feature of Chunxi Road is that it gathers various specialty stores of numerous brands, as well as numerous Chinese time-honored shopping malls, making it a preferred shopping destination for out of town tourists and local white-collar workers. There are also large shopping malls, hotels, etc. in the Chunxi Road commercial district.
Many famous Chengdu snacks of "Chinese time-honored brands", such as Zhong Dumplings, Lai Tangyuan, Fuqi Feipian (Sliced Beef and Ox Tongue in Chilli Sauce), Han Baozi, and Long Chaoshou, gathered on Chunxi Road, as well as fast-food restaurants such as McDonald's, KFC, Pizzahut, Haagen Dazs, break talk, Manchester United Restaurant, and many cafes and teahouses.
comprehensive strength
In 2005, New Weekly launched the "China Commercial Street Ranking List" again according to six indexes of eye pleasing, food, convenience, rest, popularity and commerce. Chunxi Road, known as the first commercial street in the central and western regions, the first business highland in the central and western regions, and Chengdu Golden Street, entered the top three in the list, second only to Causeway Bay in Hong Kong, Nanjing Road in Shanghai, (followed by Wangfujing in Beijing, Ximenting in Taipei, Jianghan Road in Wuhan, Beijing Road in Guangzhou, Hunan Road in Nanjing, Dehua Street in Zhengzhou, and Central Street in Harbin)
