With abundant resources, Chongqing is well-known for its various local products and handicrafts. Shu (Sichuan) Embroidery, Three Gorges Ink-slab, beef jerky and Tuo tea are best gifts for friends and relatives. Visitors can buy such products in the notable supermarkets or department stores.

 

Local Products and Handicrafts
Fermented Bean Curd
It is a traditional famous food and a good seasoning. In a bright color, it is tender and delicious.

 

Sichuan Beef Jerk
A food for banquet, travel and a gift for friends, it is made of tender beef, with sugar and condiment. It has unique five kinds of aroma.

Tuo Tea
Produced by Chongqing Tea Factory with the quality tea from Yunfeng Mountain, Tuo tea is good for health and weight reducing.

 

Silver Needle Tea
A green tea from Chongqing, it is famous for its unique fragrance and pure taste. It is one of the best green teas.

Fuling Hot Pickled Mustard Tuber
This is a unique preserved vegetable and is crunchy, tender and delicious, good for making dishes and soups.

Jiangjin Orange
Jiangjin orange is one of the main orange producers in Chongqing. Jiangjin orange is juicy, sweet and a little sour. It is nourishing.

 

Jiangjin Pop-Rice Candy
Jiangjin pop-rice crunchy candy is a traditional local product and is welcome by adults and children as it is sweet, fragrant and tasty.

Sichuan Embroidery
One of the four famous embroidery styles in China, Sichuan embroidery has been famous since 1,600 years ago during the Eastern Jin Dynasty for its strict and even stitches, lucid and lively colors. The themes are always figures, flowers, birds, worms and fish. The products include embroidered clothes, shoes and bed covers.

 

Rongchang Paper Fan
It is almost 450 years since the first Rongchang paper fan was made. Since then, the fan has enjoyed unique renown domestically and internationally. It is by no means surprising then, that hundreds of years ago the fans were exported to India and Burma. At first, only the nobility could afford to buy the elegantly made fans. The past several decades have witnessed rapid innovation utilizing different materials to make the fan and the original few have now expanded into 345 different types.

 

Three-Gorge Stone Ink Slabs
Made of amethyst from Libi Gorge area on Jialing River, this ink slab is one of the famous ink slabs in Sichuan Province for its good quality, quick dissolution of ink and slow volatilization of ink.

 

Bamboo Pleated Cases for Porcelain
These bamboo cases covering porcelain vases or tea sets can protect the ceramics and make them more beautiful with various kinds of designs.

 

Bamboo Pleated Articles
Some 30 kinds of daily use articles and handicrafts woven with local Nan bamboo pillings include cushions, bamboo chairs and curtains. These articles are good in aerating cool and comfortable. They have a good market.

 

Famous Shopping Area
Chongqing has a large pedestrian shopping area centre around Jiefangbei which is the central business district of the urban city and the centre of economic development of Chongqing Municipality. The Jiefangbei commercial Pedestrian Street centres this well-known shopping area. Clusters of modern shopping malls and exclusive shops line the roadsides. Banks, theatres, KTV clubs, bookstores, hotels, bars and pubs are also quite easy to find. Some of the main buildings worth seeing include Chongqing Department Store, New Century Department Store, Commercial Mansion, Friendship Shopping Centre, Carrefour Supermarket and New Oriental Women Plaza.

 

Chongqing Department Store Stock Co. Ltd.
It is the first state-owned department store established after Chongqing was liberated. Through a development in the past decades, it now has 22 branches and ranked the fifth in the total volume of sales in 1999 in China.

 

New Century Department Store
A newly built mall of the 1990s, it has developed rapidly and its business volume increased steadily in the past few years. Today it is one of the main general merchandise markets in Chongqing.

Sunlight Department Store
Established in the 1990s, this large market provides a comfortable environment and monopolizes the general merchandise trade in the city with its high-grade commodities.