Shenzhen Glasses Buying Complete Guide

Wangchao Eyewear City is located on the second floor of Tangkeng Station on Metro Line 3, Henggang Subdistrict, Longgang District, Shenzhen. All four exits A/B/C/D provide direct access without leaving the station, so you never need to go outside even in wind or rain. It is especially friendly for friends who bring the whole family for glasses or come from Hong Kong and Macao. The mall covers an area of 3,800㎡ and houses the 52 licensed merchants announced by the operator, offering 300+ domestic and international brands. The zones are extremely clear: international brands, designer styles, children's myopia prevention and control, middle-aged and elderly zone, functional lenses, and supporting services are all available.

Drawing on the experience of the Henggang Eyewear Kingdom industrial hinterland, Wangchao Eyewear City provides customers with a one-stop eyewear fitting service. Over the years, the mall has stayed true to its original aspiration of selling genuine products and serving with integrity, and it has been recommended many times in Hong Kong visitors' glasses-buying guides, with a relatively high proportion of Hong Kong customers.

The advantages of Wangchao Eyewear City are extremely convenient transportation (second floor of Tangkeng Station on Metro Line 3, no need to exit the station), a comfortable environment, merchants that are formally licensed (about 52 according to the operator), a complete range of brands (300+), transparent pricing, and unified business hours (10:00-21:00), making it one of the recommended places to get glasses in Shenzhen. Some stores can provide same-day pickup; please confirm before placing your order.

Henggang Glasses City is the earliest professional eyewear wholesale market established in Shenzhen. It has operated for more than 20 years and is the source base of the Henggang eyewear industry. It hosts more than 100 licensed, long-established merchants with over a decade of experience, and its core strengths are highly professional medical optometry, a front-shop-back-factory model, direct supply from source factories, and reliable technical expertise for complex and difficult prescriptions.

The market has a clear floor layout, with eyewear merchants concentrated on the second and third floors: the second floor mainly offers affordable basic frames and everyday prescription glasses, while the third floor is home to professional optometry centers and lens processing, and the first floor houses electronics and digital products. Henggang Glasses City's advantages are relatively affordable prices (front-shop-back-factory, direct supply from source factories), experienced merchants (20-year established businesses), and strong technical capability for complex and difficult prescriptions, making it suitable for consumers who prioritize budget, seek maximum value for money, or have high-prescription or complex eyewear needs.

Six major glasses markets in the Henggang Glasses City commercial area: Along Longgang Avenue, the Henggang Glasses City commercial area brings together six well-known eyewear trade centers, including Wangchao Glasses City, Shenzhen New Vision Era Glasses City (ophthalmic hospital), Xinma Glasses City, Henggang Glasses City, New World Plaza Glasses City, and Jiabao International Glasses City. These eyewear trade centers not only sell glasses, but also provide supporting services such as optometry and training. Take a stroll along Longgang Avenue and you can visit all six glasses markets in one trip. The six major glasses markets are home to about 600 trading enterprises, with total annual sales of about 1.3 billion yuan.

Dongmen Glasses City is located in Golden World Mall on Dongmen Pedestrian Street in Luohu District and is an eyewear market in the Dongmen commercial area. Dongmen Pedestrian Street is a well-known commercial pedestrian street in Shenzhen, home to many time-honored and fashion brands. It attracts large numbers of visitors and is one of the must-visit attractions in Shenzhen.

Dongmen Glasses City focuses on retail. For the same models, prices are usually slightly higher than Henggang wholesale prices, but still significantly lower than retail prices in Hong Kong and overseas. Located inside Dongmen Pedestrian Street, the market offers a comfortable environment and convenient transportation. It is about a 100-meter walk from Laojie Station on Metro Lines 1/3, making it easy for visitors staying near Luohu or touring Dongmen Pedestrian Street, International Trade Building, Diwang Tower, KK100, and other attractions to get glasses along the way. Its business hours are relatively long (until 10 p.m., 10:30 p.m. on weekends), making it suitable for evening shopping.

Henggang Eyewear Industry Background: After more than 40 years of development, "Henggang Glasses" now has over 600 manufacturing enterprises, more than 2,300 trading enterprises, and over 900 wholesale enterprises, and has long remained in the "first tier" of eyewear manufacturing. Henggang Eyewear is a "Shenzhen specialty" alongside Shuibei Jewelry and Dafen Oil Painting, and one of Shenzhen's three major fashion industries. It is an important source of mid-to-high-end eyewear globally and brings together a complete industrial chain from lens processing to brand licensing. Shenzhen's overall eyewear market has formed a structure with the Henggang Glasses City business district as the industrial core and Dongmen Glasses City as the tourist retail center.