Changchun is the biggest distributing center in the Jinlin Province. There are local products, the handicraft products, the other products and trade. There are many businessmen, pretty goods and the essences of the Northeast. The places which are the People Square, the Chongqing Street, the Guangfu market etc. are the prosperous business district. There are large general merchandise shopping centers such as the Changchun General Merchandise Mansion, the Changbaishan Market, the International Trade Center etc. There are still appointing stores in the city, which sell the special products of the Jilin Province and some civil art objects of the regions, such as the wood carving, grass, carpet, bark painting, feather painting etc.

Go to visit there, the visitors can buy the better tonic such as the ginseng, the Dang ginseng, the Hasimo oil etc. The people who are interested in art object and flowers can pick up the carvings, feather painting, the Junzilan etc. Do not forget to pick a wood carving of Changchun which is the local special product of the history of more than 2,000 years from now. The shape is beauty and the image is vivid.

Some more famous shopping places:

The International Business Center of Changchun
It is a large and modern shopping market. It locates in the prosperous business district of the train station of the Changchun City, the peripheral stores stand up like a forest, the discharge is big, the transportation leads everywhere, it is the famous business shopping district of Changchun City.

The Changchun General Merchandise Mansion
It locates at the Changchun General Merchandise Mansion of the center in city. It locates at the crossing of the Chongqing Street and the People Street. The transportation is convenience.

The Zhuozhan Age Square General Merchandise Limited Company of Chungchun
It is a large and recreational square type business enterprise which gathers the general merchandise retail price, cabaret and the dining amusements in the integral whole.

The International Trade Center of Changchun
It locates in the prosperous the Chongqing Road and faces the Changchun General Merchandise Mansion. It sells several ten thousand kinds of commodities such as general merchandise food, clothing, shoes, hats, textile products, clocks, glasses, the gold and silver jewelry, the studying and sporting materiels, appliances...etc.

The Europe and Asia Distributors
It is the biggest business retail enterprise of Jilin Province and locates in the prosperous Red Flag Street. It conducts nearly 100,000 remaininges which contain 160 major types such as general merchandise food, clothing, shoes, hats, textile products, clocks, glasses, the gold and silver jewelry, the studying and sporting materials, furniture, appliances, hardware ...etc.

The special product in Changchun:

The wood carving of Changchun
It is one of the ancient and civil crafts of our country and has the history of more than 2,000 years from now.The wood carving of Changchun take the wood of Changbai Mountain as the raw material. It is made carefully. The shape is beautiful and the image is vivid and simple. The contents of the carving include some mascots, thouse person, the myth person...etc. The shape is beauty, the technical skill is superb, the pattern is meticulous, the image is vivid, the contents are abundant and colorful.

Not old grass
Its anther name is Chaozhongrong. It is angiosperm, Orchidaceae, champions. They grow on the steep hill or overhanging cliffs which is the elevation from 1300 meters to 2000 meters high. It is many years to living to live on the herbage, is 0.5 meter high, the diameter amounts is 3 centimeters, erections, the root is big, the meat quality is robust. The whole stub is brown and purple, the form of ear is inflorescence, the principal axis is thicker. The flower is smaller, the corolla is dark and red purple, the body is big. The fruits are egg. It can be the medicine. The usually methods of using are for steeping the wine, smothering chicken and boiling the soup, the medicine with it. The function are restoring virility. It is said that it can let you longevity. So it is called the not old grass.

The bark painting
It also is called the wooden painting. It is the craft painting by taking the skin of birch as the raw material, such as the Yunzhi, the Yinzhi, the Zimang etc. The birches are rich in the area of the Changbai Mountain. The skin is colorful and can pursue the layer removal to become the slice, the outside layer is white, the mile layer is lightly red, it has the milk white, pink, the thin Huang, the Heshi etc. color; It is light but pliant and tough, full of flexibility, it is an ideal raw material for making the handicraft products. The ways of making wooden painting have two kinds of skill methods which are the relief and the lying flat. The wooden painting topics are plentiful, the atmosphere is strong, such as a clouds and mist, cloud mountain fog, swift flow waterfall, spring and white snow, balcony station, the person, flowers and birds...etc. They are feast for the eyes and rich in beauty.

Reed
It is also called Lu or Wei. It belongs to Hemuke and is many perennial herbaceous plants. The underground is a robust form that crawls. The leaf's slice covers with the needle form widely, arranging two lines. They come into flowers in summer and autumn. The cone inflorescence is 10 centimeters to 40 centimeters long, the branches stretch slightly. They grow in the pools, the river shore, by the lake, the canals, and wayside.

The pole can be made for papers and artificial cotton, artificial fiber raw materials, weaving mat, blinds ...etc. The caulis are called the reed rhizome. It is medicine in the Chinese medicine. The function are for puring stomach fire and removing the lung heat.

The grass weaves in Dehui
It is the special product of the northern Dehui City of Changchun City, it is the history of hundreds of years. Except for the familiar fancywork by made of the brome grass and the skin of kaoliang rod, it is made of leather article of corn as principle now; it has a kind of natural luster, beautiful and practical. The workers draw up the hand baskets, suitcases, jewel boxes, fruit boxes, bread dishes, cushions, tea mats, slippers, the grass system carpet...etc.

Its characteristics are soft and full of tenacity, easy and convenient, not transmit heat, and not absorb water. Some have the natural color and luster, some can dye with the artificial, and it is beautiful and practical. The grass weaves raw material species can be divided into the grass, the willow, the Wei, the rattan four major types mostly. Now the Dehui grass weaves have already been sold to more than ten nations and regions.