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Wangfujing snack street, (closed as of February 2024) located in hutongs just west of the main street, contains many restaurants and street food stalls. The food stalls serve a variety of common and exotic
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Until the late 1990s, the street was open to traffic. Modifications in 1999 and 2000 made much of Wangfujing Street pedestrian only (aside from the tour
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were planned to take place in Wangfujing. Some violence occurred there between police and foreign journalists.
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Wangfujing Street starts from Wangfujing South Entrance (王府井南口, Wángfǔjǐng Nánkǒu), where the Oriental Plaza,
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The street was also previously known as Morrison Street in English, after the Australian journalist
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of Beijing Subway Lines 1 and 8, is located at the intersection of Wangfujing Street and
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are located. The street then heads north, passing the Wangfujing Bookstore, the
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Wangfujing is now home to around 280 shops. Wangfujing malls include the
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as well as the Beijing Foreign Languages Bookstore before ending at the
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Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region in Beijing
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there have been commercial activities in the area. In the
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List of leading shopping streets and districts by city
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Shopping street in Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
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