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			<h1><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">New Qianmen<br>
				</font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">新前门</font></h1>
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									<font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">August 7, 2008</font>
									<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before and after, a reconstruction.  Below, the photograph shows a famous hat store Sheng Xifu  </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">盛锡福</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Shèng Xīfú) that was founded in 1911.  Today, their main store is on Wangfujing Street, another walking shopping street.  Sheng Xifu did very well after the Revolution.  All of those caps worn by Mao Zedong and other Chinese leaders were made by Sheng Xifu.</font></p>
									<p><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The new store</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> is occupied by Baoxing </font><font size="+1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">宝兴</font><font size="-1" color="white" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> (Bǎoxīng) but they had not opened for business, Baoxing is a woman's high fashion store.  One of the goals of the Qianmen project is to get many stores selling traditional Chinese products back to the street.  It doesn't matter if they are in their original store or not.</font></p>
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