Renmin Zhong Lu and nearby roads in western old town are the best places to hunt for cost-effective spectacles and contact lenses. A couple of markets offer diversified mid and low range of glasses.

Most stores are for dealers, while several others are for non-mainstream optical outlets, plus several warehouses and processing workshops. Some dealers and stores join hands to provide a chain of one-stop-shop service to customers.

You'd better take care for the relatively low price, as some products here are under-average quality and some optical prescriptions are not good enough.

Most of the storekeepers are from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces and Chaozhou, Guangdong.

Facade of Xinjiang Glasses City.

Xinjiang Glasses City
信江眼镜城 

It is an old name of glasses business in the city, founded in 2003.

Add: 250, Renmin Zhong Lu, Guangzhou (Besides the side drive to Guangzhou Daily's office)


Guangzhou Glasses Market
广州眼镜城

Four floors of the place are over 40 stores each.

Business scope: spectacles, frames, lenses, accessories and optical apparatuses.
Tel: 8188 2626
Add: 260, Renmin Zhong Lu, Guangzhou (next to Xinjiang Glasses City)

Inside of Guangzhou Glasses Market.

Guangdong International Eyeglasses Center
广东（国际）眼镜中心

The center is near Shang-xia-jiu Shopping Street, with more than ten bus lines around, easy to reach railway stations and bus terminals.

It only takes ten minutes to walk to Ximen Kou subway station.

The center is equipped with escalators, elevators, central air-conditioning, broadband internet connection, large free parking lot, and storehouses.

Business scope: spectacles
Address: 313, Guangfu Zhong Lu, west to Renmin Zhong Lu, Guangzhou

Source: Lifeofguangzhou.com

Editor: Ronald Li