[Guangzhou 2016] Part Nine: Beijing Road, Shangxiajiu District, and Shopping Haul

The two shopping districts of Guangzhou that are arguably worth visiting would be the Beijing Road Pedestrian Mall and the Shangxiajiu District. Both are built very similar; wide streets and old Cantonese styled buildings. They both have adorned themselves with red lanterns and run very long. Even as I sift through my memories, I am unsure which places I had visited. In hours of high traffic, the streets are bustling with people. Had they not sealed the entrances off barring any sort of vehicle to enter, it would have been highly dangerous.

[Guangzhou 2016] Part Three: Miniso

In 2015, I had discovered Miniso. At that time it was smaller in business with one or two stores in the Beijing Road Pedestrian Street. It was even shady as suspicions arose of Miniso being a fake company with a fake address in Japan as covered by RocketNews24.  On the old posts covering Miniso, there were some negative comments as to calling it "shit quality products" and "a knockoff". Even to this day, the Miniso website had not been updated much and still is written in broken English, but what is it that made this now chain store such a huge success in China?