Beijing Laitai Flower Trading Center

Beijing Laitai Flower Trading Center opened up in April 1998. It cost 150 million yuan and its building area amounts to 55000 square meters.
Laitai Flower Trading Center is located at the east 3rd Ring Road business district of Beijing. It is fourteen kilometers from the north embassy area while the third and fourth embassy areas will be built close by on the east side.
The Flower Trading Center is conveniently located only half a kilometer from the airport expressway and sixteen kilometers from the Beijing International Airport itself.
Laitai Flower Trading Center is made up of Laitai flower market and Laitai Flower Street. This is the biggest flower distributing center of northern China.
Laitai Flower Market is composed of the fake flower sale building and the fresh potted flower sale hall. The underground floor of the fake flower building has modern porcelain, lamps, carpets, straw and cane products, eating utensils, stone carvings and some small handicrafts.
HongFu is a special store from northeastern China. Many television programs have reported on this store. The products are made out of maize-leaves and are unique; therefore it is difficult to find another one like it. Fish are one of the mascots of China and express happiness and wealth.
You can buy beautiful fish made in solid wood here. "Carex meyeriana Kunth" is a kind of herbaceous plant which has been growing for many years. It is from one of the three extremely cold provinces in northeast China.
Many people from the countryside use this kind of plant to keep their feet warm. It has become so popular that these special plants are now sold abroad.