Shopping streets :
Zhongshan Road Shopping Area
The Hongqi Road Free Market sells a wide variety of commodities. It consists of privately owned stores and underground shopping street, which is crowded with customers from morning to night everyday. Dashizi Commercial Building, Sinkiang Department Store, Hongqi Road Plaza, Sinkiang Candy, Wine and Food Building, Hengdeli Clock and Watch Shop and Ningdetang Drugstore are very popular. Hundred Flower Village Co. Ltd. has a tall building rebuilt on its old site with more than 10 stories. The completion of Tianshan Plaza and Tianshan Department Store add splendor to the old shopping street.

Friendship Shopping Street

It is a bustling shopping street, which is filled with many shops and plazas. It includes famous Hongshan Plaza, Friendly Plaza, Huadu Shopping Center, Modern Plaza and many new stores.

Featured products
Cashmere Sweaters
The "TSE" cashmere product produced by the Tianshan Wool Textile Co. Ltd. is a world-famous brand.

Carpets
Carpets produced in Sinkiang enjoy a great reputation in and aboard. They show distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong local style. The patterns of its carpets are unique at the international market.

Jade Carvings

Sinkiang produces jade flower vases, birds, beasts, flowers, figures, imitations of ancient vessels, jewelry and ornaments. Its raw material is world-renowned Hotan white jade, Manasi green stone and Hami yellow jade. Its jade products are well received in Europe, United States, Japan and other countries and regions.

Hami Melon

Hami melon is grown in the Tarim Basin, Junggar Basin, Turpan Basin, and Harm Prefecture. Harm melon is sweet, tasty and full of nutrition. According to a research, Hami melon contains a great amount of vitamins, which is 4-7 times of those in watermelons, 6 times of those in apples, and 1.3 times of those in apricots.

Urumchi boasts of various national products, such as Uygur NationalityFlowery Hat, handcraft embroidery, gold and silver ornaments, jade carving, carpet, wood carving, sheep horn scourge, Xibe Nationality smoking bag and others. You are recommended to buy these articles as souvenirs.

For special local products, you are recommended to buy deer antler, donkey-hide gelatin, deer blood wine, Yili wine, grape wine and others.

The most attraction is Sinkiang fruit, such as grape, Hami melon, guava, almond, fig, peach, Yili apple and other preserved fruit.

The Ohsmen seed juice has supernatural effect in blacken your brows. Thanks to the seed juice, the local girls boast of their black and thick brows. You are recommended to buy this kind of natural beautification article along the Erdaoqiao.