Is Qipu Road Clothing Wholesale Market open?

The Qipu Road Clothing Wholesale Market is open.

On June 13, merchants in Shanghai’s Qipu Road clothing commercial district appealed for rent reductions and exemptions, attracting attention from the outside world. Many clothing merchants on Qipu Road reported that the three-month closure coincided with the peak season for clothing wholesale. Spring and summer shipments were heavily overstocked and operating pressure was very high. They hoped that their landlords could reduce part of the rent.

On that day, the Qipu Road Clothing Wholesale Market in the commercial district was still open, but the inside of the market seemed very depressed. Most of the merchants were closed. Only three or four of the more than two dozen shops in one aisle were open. Open for business. The rolling shutter doors of many closed stores have slogans such as "Don't cancel the lease, don't open the door" and "Who will save our physical store".

Attention.

Qipu Road Clothing Commercial Street is located at the junction of Jing'an District and Hongkou District in Shanghai. It is the largest mid-to-low-end clothing wholesale market in East China, with multiple clothing wholesale markets and clothing malls located in it. According to a 2018 report by Shanghai's Wenhui Po, the Qipu Road Clothing Commercial Street covers an area of ??0.5 square kilometers. There are 12 markets in the commercial district, with a total construction area of ??nearly 300,000 square meters, and more than 6,500 large and small shops. In its heyday, Qipu Road had a maximum daily passenger flow of 100,000 people and an average daily shipment volume of two to three hundred tons.