East China (华东) · 55 places · 6 provinces
55 places in East China, grouped by province. 16 of them expect haggling. The last column also says how much English to expect.
Most common here: Listed entry (18), Craft and souvenir street (9), Mall district (8). See all regions, or the background on shopping.
13 places
Shanghai (上海市)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| Buye City Phone Market (Suspended/Renovating) (不夜城手机市场)Once recorded as the largest phone clearing house in east China. Suspended for redevelopment, and the trade has scattered. | Shanghai | Little or no English |
| Dongtai Road Antiques Street (Shanghai) (上海东台路古玩街)Shanghai’s antique street, about 500 m of shops and stalls, known for old Shanghai household objects and Western antiques. | Shanghai | Haggling expected Some English |
| Huaihai Road (上海淮海路)Shanghai’s fashion street, with TX Huaihai aimed at the young and K11 running an art programme alongside the retail. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Jing’an Temple / West Nanjing Road Commercial District (静安寺商圈（南京西路）)Four malls off one metro station, linked underground so the district connects without surfacing. Plaza 66 and HKRI Taikoo Hui carry the luxury end, and Jiuguang runs to 550 brands. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Lujiazui Financial District (陆家嘴)The financial district, and the place to look at the skyline rather than to shop: the Oriental Pearl, Shanghai Tower and the World Financial Center all stand together. IFC is one of the city’s luxury malls. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Middle Huaihai Road (淮海中路)High-end fashion alongside the new Chinese labels people now come from abroad to buy; at some flagships here the foreign share of customers runs over half. Old Shanghai food shops hold the same street. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Nanjing Road (上海南京路步行街)Described as China’s best-known shopping street, running from the Bund to People’s Square past a century of buildings in a dozen national styles. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street (南京路步行街)The commercial street every Chinese person can name, lined with the department store buildings of the last century. Crowded at all hours; the side streets are where people actually buy things. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Qingpu Outlets (上海青浦奥特莱斯)The Qingpu outlet centre west of Shanghai, and the one most Yangtze delta shoppers drive to. Full brand range, deep discounting. | Shanghai | Fixed prices Little or no English |
| Qipu Road Fashion Market (七浦路服装批发市场)Shanghai’s main clothing wholesale street, 620 m of it, trading for thirty years. Womenswear, menswear, children’s, shoes and bags, and export surplus. | Shanghai | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Tianzifang (Taikang Road Art District) (田子坊)A 1930s shikumen lane block turned into studios and shops, named by the painter Huang Yongyu. Foreign visitors were 40% of footfall in 2025 after the visa-free changes, reported as the highest share of any Shanghai lane. | Shanghai | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Xujiahui Digital District (徐家汇数码商圈)Shanghai’s concentration of computer and camera retail, in malls built for it in the 1990s. Branded machines and self-assembly parts rather than wholesale. | Shanghai | Fixed prices English is usually available |
| Yu Garden Bazaar (City God Temple) (豫园商城（城隍庙）)The market around the 1559 garden and the city god temple: Shanghai’s old food names, pear syrup sweets, spiced beans and butterfly pastry, plus gold shops and the lantern festival. | Shanghai | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
13 places
Zhejiang (浙江省)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| Haining China Leather Market (海宁中国皮革城)Listed as the largest leather wholesale market in China and described by the market itself as the largest and most complete in Asia. Rated as a AAAA tourist site, which is unusual for a wholesale market. | Haggling expected Some English |
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| Dongyang Woodcarving Market (东阳中国木雕城)The woodcarving and hardwood furniture cluster, over 400,000 square metres of trading floor and more than 3,000 traders. Dongyang carving is ranked first among the four Chinese schools. | Dongyang | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Hubin Commercial District (West Lake) (湖滨商圈（湖滨路）)The east shore of West Lake. In77 runs across five blocks from luxury down to street brands, and the musical fountain is a few minutes away. | Hangzhou | Fixed prices Some English |
| Sijiqing Fashion Market (四季青服装市场)Ranked the second largest clothing wholesale centre in China and a major e-commerce supply base. Hangzhou-made womenswear, silk, and Korean-cut lines. | Hangzhou | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Wensan Road Electronics District (文三路电子信息街区)Hangzhou’s computer and electronics street, and the main distribution point for IT goods in Zhejiang. Branded machines, custom builds, office equipment. | Hangzhou | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Xiasha Outlets (Hangzhou) (杭州下沙奥特莱斯)Described as Hangzhou’s largest outlet centre, over 200 brands, standing on the Qiantang river east of the city. | Hangzhou | Fixed prices Some English |
| Zhili Children’s Clothing Cluster (织里童装产业集群)The children’s-wear cluster: over two billion garments a year, about two thirds of Chinese output, with school and sports kit alongside. | Huzhou | Haggling expected Some English |
| Zhili Children’s Clothing Market (Huzhou) (湖州织里中国童装城)The children’s-wear cluster and its wholesale market: over two billion garments a year, about two thirds of the national trade. | Huzhou | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Puyuan Sweater Market (Tongxiang) (桐乡濮院羊毛衫市场)The sweater cluster: over 6,000 firms, and the main clearing point for knitted outerwear in China. | Jiaxing | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Yiwu Huangyuan Garment Market (义乌篁园服装市场)Described as Yiwu’s largest specialist clothing wholesale market: menswear, womenswear, children’s, underwear and sportswear. | Jinhuayiwu | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Yiwu International Production Materials Market (义乌国际生产资料市场)Raw material, machinery and packaging sold to manufacturers rather than to shops. Not a market for casual visitors. | Jinhuayiwu | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Yiwu International Trade City (District 1-5) (义乌国际商贸城（一区至五区）)Recorded as the largest wholesale market for small commodities in the world, built over five generations of market buildings: 26 categories and 2.1 million lines. | Jinhuayiwu | Haggling expected Some English |
| China Textile City (Keqiao) (中国轻纺城)Described as the largest textile trading centre in the world by range, and the first market allowed to use China in its name. Trade figures put about a quarter of the world’s fabric trade through it. | Shaoxing | Haggling expected Some English |
11 places
Jiangsu (江苏省)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| Changshu Clothing City (常熟服装城)Counted among the largest clothing wholesale markets in China and the base of the down-jacket maker Bosideng. A buying destination rather than a shopping street. | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
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| Dieshiqiao International Home Textile City (叠石桥国际家纺城)Listed as the largest home-textile market in the world, and reported to have the most complete supply chain in the trade: bedding, quilts, pillows, curtains and the fabric for them. | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
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| Confucius Temple Pedestrian Street (Fuzimiao) (夫子庙步行街)Three streets around the Qinhuai riverside and the Jiangnan examination hall. Lanterns, Nanjing brocade, folding fans and salted duck; prices run above the city norm. | Nanjing | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Xinjiekou Commercial District (新街口)Nanjing’s central district, and the busiest in east China by footfall. Deji Plaza is the luxury anchor, and the Sun Yat-sen statue marks the crossing. | Nanjing | Fixed prices Some English |
| Dieshiqiao Home Textile (南通叠石桥家纺)The home-textile cluster: more than 15,000 shops holding over half the national offline trade. Bedding sets, quilts, pillows, curtains and towels. | Nantong | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Guanqian Street (观前街)Recorded as the oldest shopping street in Suzhou, named after the Xuanmiao Daoist temple it fronts. Century-old shops and, more recently, intangible-heritage silver workshops. | Suzhou | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Jinji Lake Commercial District (Suzhou Industrial Park) (金鸡湖商圈)The industrial park side of Suzhou. Suzhou Center is counted among the largest complexes in east China, and Eslite opened its first mainland store here. | Suzhou | Fixed prices Some English |
| Pingjiang Road Historic District (平江路历史文化街区)An 800-year street on its original alignment along a canal. Suzhou embroidery, olive-stone carving, museum merchandise and hanfu hire; the lanes off it are quieter than the road. | Suzhou | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Shantang Street (Seven Li Shantang) (山塘街（七里山塘）)Cut as a canal by Bai Juyi in 825 and lined with shops ever since. Seven li from the city out to Tiger Hill, with the water on one side and the trade on the other. | Suzhou | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Shengze Oriental Silk Market (Suzhou) (盛泽东方丝绸市场)The core market of the Shengze silk cluster, over 3,000 traders, and the main clearing point for silk fabric in China. | Suzhou | Haggling expected Some English |
| Yixing Zisha (宜兴丁蜀镇紫砂)Where purple-clay teapots come from: 42,000 people make them. Studios along the old Shushan street sell direct, and makers can be visited. | Yixing | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
9 places
Fujian (福建省)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| Jinjiang Sports Footwear & Apparel Cluster (Factory Outlets) (晋江运动鞋服产业集群（工厂店/奥特莱斯）)The sports-shoe cluster: about forty per cent of Chinese output and a fifth of the world’s. Anta, Xtep, 361 and Peak are headquartered here, with factory outlets alongside. | Fixed prices Some English |
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| Shishi Clothing City (石狮服装城)The centre of casualwear manufacturing in China, with dyeing capacity of 4.5 billion metres a year. A trade destination. | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
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| Anxi Tea Capital (安溪中国茶都)The wholesale market at the source of Tieguanyin oolong, listed among the largest tea markets in the country, with more than two thousand traders under one roof. Sellers brew before they sell, so tasting first is the normal way to buy. | Anxi | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Dehua Porcelain Street (德化陶瓷街)Several hundred shops and studios selling Dehua white ware: Buddhist figures, tea sets, and the export pieces Europe called blanc de Chine. | Dehua | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Dehua White Porcelain (德化白瓷)Dehua white ware, known in Europe as blanc de Chine. The county makes about eighty per cent of Chinese tea ware and one in three ceramic ornaments sold worldwide. | Dehua | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Dongjiekou Commercial District (东街口)The traditional commercial centre of Fuzhou, next to the Three Lanes and Seven Alleys quarter. A Fujian-culture design store opened here in February 2026. | Fuzhou | Fixed prices Little or no English |
| Three Lanes and Seven Alleys (Sanfang Qixiang) (三坊七巷历史文化街区)A residential grid laid out in the Western Jin and largely intact, which makes it a working record of Ming and Qing housing. Lin Zexu, Yan Fu and Bing Xin all came from these lanes. | Fuzhou | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Jinjiang Footwear Factory Outlets (晋江鞋都工厂店集中区)Where the Chinese sports brands are headquartered, Anta, Xtep, 361, Peak and Erke among them, with their factory and discount stores in the same district. | Jinjiang | Fixed prices Some English |
| Jinjiang Footwear Outlets (晋江鞋服工厂店)Factory outlets for the sports brands headquartered here, where end-of-season and broken-size stock sells well below mall prices. Chendai town alone makes over a billion pairs a year. | Jinjiang | Fixed prices Little or no English |
8 places
Jiangxi (江西省)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| China Ceramics City (中国陶瓷城)The branded end of the Jingdezhen trade: display and wholesale of art ware, tableware, building ceramics and sanitary ware. | Jingdezhen | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Fanjiajing Antique-style Ceramics Village (樊家井仿古瓷村)A village given over to reproduction porcelain, where most households make it: Ming and Qing forms, aged to look their part. | Jingdezhen | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Guomao Ceramics Market (国贸陶瓷市场)Listed as Jingdezhen’s largest wholesale market for everyday ceramics: tableware, tea sets, vases and reproduction pieces, sold retail as well. | Jingdezhen | Haggling expected Little or no English |
| Imperial Kiln Archaeological Site Park (御窑厂国家考古遗址公园)The site of the imperial kilns that supplied the Ming and Qing courts for five centuries. Excavated shards from rejected pieces are the reason so much is known about how court porcelain was graded. | Jingdezhen | Fixed prices Some English |
| Imperial Kiln Site (景德镇御窑厂遗址)The imperial kilns of the Ming and Qing, inscribed as World Heritage in 2025 after six centuries of production for the court. | Jingdezhen | Fixed prices Some English |
| Lianshe Road Ceramics Street (莲社路陶瓷街)Where Jingdezhen’s high-end art porcelain is sold, with the studios and galleries of named makers along one street. | Jingdezhen | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
| Sculpture Porcelain Factory and Pottery Workshop Market (Jingdezhen) (雕塑瓷厂（含乐天陶社集市）)A state ceramics works converted into studios, and where graduates of the ceramics university set up. The Pottery Workshop market runs on Saturday mornings. | Jingdezhen | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
| Taoxichuan Creative District (陶溪川文创街区)A disused state porcelain factory turned studio quarter, and where the young potters who move to Jingdezhen actually work. Weekend market stalls are run by the makers themselves. | Jingdezhen | Haggling in some stalls Some English |
1 place
Shandong (山东省)
| Place | City | How it works |
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| World Kite Capital (潍坊风筝)Weifang kite-making is registered national intangible heritage, and the international kite festival runs each April. Yangjiabu woodblock New Year prints come from the same place. | Weifang | Haggling in some stalls Little or no English |
Buying Without Overpaying
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