Nanjing Road  is Shanghais main shopping street, famously named one of the Worlds Seven Great Roads in the 1930s and now making a rapid comeback after decades of Maoist austerity. The road stretches from The Bund east towards Hongqiao, with Shanghais centerpoint Peoples Square  in the middle.

Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, the car-free central section between Peoples Park and Henan Zhonglu, is known for its stationery and book stores. One of the largest is the Shanghai Book City which is all Chinese language, or the the Foreign Book Store just down the street which caters to Western tastes.