Other items include: the Hualin Furniture andJadeObjects Street; Qingping Road; the Liwan Square, which contains a group of residential apartment buildings; and a large number of stores selling stationary.
More than 1,400 years ago, Dharma, an accomplished Indian monk, came to China as a missionary. His first landing place was at Xiajiu Road (today's Xilaichudi, the first landing place of the Westerners). The monk then constructed the XilaiTemple(today's Hualin Temple), paving the way for the establishment of ChineseBuddhismZen and theShaolin Templeat Mount Song.
Shangxiajiu Street opened in 1995 and since then, many top state officials includingJiang Zemin, Li Peng, Zhu Rongji, Ye Xuanping, and Tung Chee-hwa have visited the place. The most splendid moment in history is recorded on the huge board in the middle of the street: In spring of 2001, President Jiang Zemin visited Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Shopping Street.
Shangxiajiu is one of the three major municipal-level shopping areas of Guangzhou. The 800-meter-long street is lined with nearly 250 shops.
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