Jiefangbei, Chongqing

Jiefangbei stands in the most prosperous downtown center of Chongqing. It is the center of the city marked as Chongqing's commercial heart. It is isolated by broad, paved pedestrian square and numerous glassy office skyscrapers and high-rise hotels, reminiscent of New York's or Tokyo's Times Square district. Around Jiefangbei Shopping Square there are more than 3,000 stores, more than two dozen large malls and shopping centers, dozens of star-graded hotels, and offices such as banks, stock markets, trade and finance companies, postal and telecommunication services, and places of entertainment.