Beijing Panjiayuan Folk Culture Market is located at the southeast of Panjiayuan, South road of east third ring road, Chaoyang  District，Beijing, covers an area of  48, 500O, divided  into six operating sections: Roadside Stand Section, Ancient  Architecture  Section, Classical  Furniture Section,  Modern Collection  Section, Sculpture  and  Stone  Engraving Section and Catering  Section. Mainly trade in Antique, Handicraft,  Collection, Ornament  etc.,  with an annual trade volume of severd hundred  million yuan.  Having more than  4000  shopowners,  this  market  enjoys  nearly  ten  thousand  shop  assistants,  in which sixty  percent are  from the other  twenty eight provinces and  municipalities   except  Beijing,   whom  are  more  than  ten  minorities of Hui,  Man,  Miao,  Dong,  Uigur,  Mongolia,  Korean  and other  ethnic  groups of China.

          Beijing Panjiayuan Folk Culture Market  is the most popular antique market in . All the shops open  365  days  per year,  roadside stands open every weekends.  So  that  every  Saturday and Sunday  the  volume  of  customers  flow  reaches  sixty  to  seventy  thousand,  among  them the oversea guests are about ten thousand,  with different color, language, social classes and beliefs, they blend and mixed in Panjiayuan Second-hand goods Market.

          This market is the most completi  collection market in China. With main operational goods of the imitation of classical furniture, Four Treasures of the Study i.e. writing brush, ink stick,  ink slab and paper,  ancient books and magazines,  calligraphy and painting,  agate and jade, pottery and porcelain,  Chinese  and  foreign  coins,  carving  of  bamboo,  wood and bone,  shadow  play with puppets  made  from  ass hide,  type  of  facial  makeup  in  traditional  Chinese  operas,  token of Buddhism, costume and garment of Chinese ethnic groups,  relics of The Great Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) etc.  This  market  is a  display  for  collection,  an  exchange  platform and a paradise for collectors.

           It is also the largest collecting and distributing centre of folk handicraft in China:  Hengshui snuff  bottle,  Yang Liuqing Spring Festival  picture,  Jiangsu  embroidery,  Dongyang wood carving, Quyang stone  engraving  and sculpture,  Shandong  shadow play,  Jiangxi  porcelain  and  crystal ornament, Yixing boccaro ware,  Shanxi  bronze  ware, Yunnan costume, Tibetan Buddhism article, Sinkiang white jade,  Taiwan cross toe pottery,  etc. All these diverse folk handicrafts are gathered in  Panjiayuan  Market  from  considerable  places  in ,  and trade to other provinces and the whole world.