Silk Street

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Silk Street (Chinese: 秀水街; pinyin: Xiùshuǐ Jiē; lit. 'beautiful Water Street', Xiushui Street), aka Silk Market or Silk Street Market, is a shopping center in Chaoyang District, Beijing, that accommodates over 1,700 retail vendors, notorious among international tourists for their wide selection of counterfeit designer brand apparel.^[1] The Silk Street is located at Yonganli, just west of the China World Trade Centre and is accessible by subway (line 1) and bus.

The Silk Street attracts approximately 20,000 visitors daily (from 9 am to 9 pm) on weekdays and between 50,000 and 60,000 on weekends as of 2006. This 35,000 m² (380,000 sq ft) complex houses 1,700 retail vendors and over 3,000 salespeople spread over seven floors with three levels of basements. Many of the stalls have, over the years, gained local and international reputation for selling counterfeit luxury designer brands at relatively low prices. Some have carried on this trademark despite growing pressures from the management, the Chinese government and famous brand-name companies.