Friendshop Store	Handicraft Trade Center	Taoist Temple Street
Embroidery Research Institute	Sandal Wood Fan Factory	Suzhou No.1 Silk Spinning Mill
Suzhou Silk Garment Factory	Suzhou Silk Printing Mill	Dongwu Silk Weaving Mill
Suzhou Silk Dyeing and Scouring Factory	Suzhou Mahogany Carving Factory	Suzhou Jade Carving Factory

Friendship Store has a long history of providing overseas visitors with silk products, carpets, embroidery, gold and silver ornaments, jade articles, calligraphic art and other paintings, herbal medicine, cigarettes and wine, and mahogany furniture, as well as local handicrafts.

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Handicraft Trade Center sells embroidery; Chinese musical instruments; Chinese brushes, ink, and ink-stone; silk and silk garments; herbal medicines; carpets; and other various handicraft articles.

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Taoist Temple Street is the busiest shopping mall located in the city center. The well-known Temple of Mystery on this street is a national monument.

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Embroidery Research Institute. Suzhou embroidery is one of the four famous embroidery schools in China. Kittens and goldfish are common motifs. With 48 embroidery colors, the institute turns out unique needlework, of which double-faced embroidery is most outstanding.

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Sandal Wood Fan Factory is famous for making sandalwood fans, perfumed wood fans, silk tissue fans, and ivory fans. Visitors enjoy viewing the processes of fretwork, poker work, painting, and carving.

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Suzhou No. 1 Silk Spinning Mill specializes in producing raw silk with domestic silk-worm cocoons as its raw material. Western visitors often enjoy observing the processes of sorting, boiling cocoons, spinning, rewinding, and packing.

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Suzhou Silk Garment Factory manufactures various high-grade silk garments that are much sought after at home and abroad. The ancient-style costume show of the factory demonstrates various costumes of China's past dynasties, winning high appreciation from both domestic and international visitors.

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Suzhou Silk Printing Mill turns out millions of meters of printed silk, "Mid-Lake Pavilion” brand crepe de chine winning the state gold prize. Visitors are able to observe all the stages of the process, such as designing and printing.

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Dongwu Silk Weaving Mill, the largest of its kind with more than 5,000 workers, specializes in producing such silk fabrics as taffeta, crowned "King of Taffeta" in international markets, and brocade, which is praised as "Artistic Flower of the East."

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Suzhou Silk Dyeing and Scouring Factory annually dyes 40 million meters of silk fabrics. The products are exported to over 100 countries and regions. Observation of the processing itself attracts many visitors from all over the world.

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Suzhou Mahogany Carving Factory is renowned both at home and abroad for its handmade Ming-Dynasty style mahogany furniture, including beds, bookshelves, wardrobes, chests of
drawers, various tables and chairs, as well as small ornaments--all of superb workmanship.

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Suzhou Jade Carving Factory produces both large and small jade articles, such as Buddha figures, beautiful ladies, flowers, birds, animals, bracelets, and necklaces. Suzhou city has been one of the cradles for jade carving in China since time immemorial.

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