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Zhejiangcun ( "Zhejiang Village") was a community of migrant workers around the Nanyuan-Dahongmen area, within Fengtai District, Beijing. These workers originated from Zhejiang, with most of them from Wenzhou, which is famous of its prosperous economy in many fields, such as textiles. Thus, the main markets in "Zhejiangcun" are fashion industry, electrical equipments, and textiles. Among them, the most famous malls are "Dahongmen" Shopping Mall, "Bairong" Shopping Mall, "Jingwen" Shopping Mall.



History
Liu Xiaoli and Liang Wei, authors of "Zhejiangcun: social and spatial implications of informal urbanization on the periphery of Beijing," wrote that the Lu Brothers, who originated from Qingjiang district, Yueqing county, Zhejiang, were "said" to be the founders of Zhejiangcun. In 1982 they had stopped in Beijing on a journey from Inner Mongolia back to their hometowns. They set up a stand to sell overstocked goods in proximity to the Qianmen underground passageway and found a high volume of sales. Instead of returning to Wenzhou they rented a room in a peasant's house and opened a business there. A governmental open door policy to commerce and industry was established in Beijing in 1983, increasing the influx of businesspeople. In 1985, many residents from Wenzhou migrated to Beijing after Beijing opened its commercial economy. A lot of immigrants came from Wenzhou because that city had a strong tradition of business.

In November 1995 the authorities demolished large segments of the Zhejiangcun settlement.

Cityscape
The historical community, around the Nanyuan-Dahongmen area, covered 24 administratrive villages. The central portion of the area included the municipal villages of Dahongmen, Dongluoyuan, Ganyuan, Shicun, and Shiliuzhuang. Its borders were Muxiyuan to the north, Majiapo to the south, Chengshou Temple to the east, and Dahongmen to the south. The primary commercial street of Zhejiangcun was Dahongmen Street, which is 20 m wide. The centermost part of Zhejiangcun consisted of the municipal sub-villages of Shicun: Dengcun, Houcun, and Macun. The residents are mainly from Wenzhou, Zhejiang. 70% were from Leqing, 25% were from Yongjia, and others were from other villages in Wenzhou. 95% of these residents were agricultural residents, which are from rural areas; only 5% are from urban areas, according to a data in October,1994.

Pre-November 1995 Dahongmen Street included small retail shops selling clothing and wholesale markets. A 150 sqm open air market was located on a 100 m street in Macun. This market was demolished in November 1995.

The future development of Zhejiangcun
At the beginning of the establishment of Zhejiangcun, local citizens always viewed Zhejiangcun as a dirty and messy place in Beijing. Also, crimes such as robbery always happened in Zhejiangcun area in the early 1990s. Although government tried to solve this problem by "deportation", it is hard to clear all Zhejiang residents out of this area. .

Zhejiangcun nowadays are totally different from its origin, it becomes the biggest clothing industry in Northern China, as well as one of the "biggest eight commercial areas" in Beijing. A data in 2003 showed that the average output of goods per day was about 1600 tons, and reached 2000 tons at the peak. The total trading amount of a year was 30 billion yuan, which is 54.5% of Beijing's total transactions of similar products. More than 20 provinces in China traded with Zhejiangcun.In the worldwide, Germany, Russia, Australia and many other countries became its trading partners as well.

Demographics
The pre-November 1995 estimates stated that 100,000 migrant workers lived in the community. 80% originated from Wenzhou, Zhejiang.