United Bookstore is the first bookstore wholly owned by Hong Kong United Publishing Group in mainland China, and its location at 314 Beijing Road is the former site of the Guangzhou branch of Chung Hwa Book Company and the Guangzhou branch of the Commercial Press. This five-storey old arcade building seems to have a long-term fate with books, and it still stands tall in the bustling business district of Beijing Road, which can be called a beautiful scenery. In addition to the Beijing Road store, AutoNavi Land Winter Plaza also has a branch of United Bookstore. Combining the characteristics of the old building itself and the modern design style, the United Bookstore on Beijing Road outlines a cultural space that wanders between tradition and modernity, with trendy decorations and artworks, as well as a strong bookish atmosphere. The first floor of the bookstore is a book café, which displays new books and all kinds of popular bestsellers. The second to fourth floors are the main reading area, covering everything from literature, philosophy and social sciences, art design to children's books. The fifth floor is divided into the "United Space" and the Anime and Comics area, where the United Space holds art exhibitions, cultural salons and other activities from time to time, and the anime merchandise store Animate is a pilgrimage place for many Japanese comic lovers. As a Hong Kong-owned bookstore, United Bookstore has one of the richest collections of Hong Kong and Taiwan books among other bookstores, and customers can find a large number of Hong Kong and Taiwan books and foreign language publications on the third floor of the bookstore. Different from the Beijing Road store, the Gaode Plaza store occupies only one floor, the store space is a ring design, the center of the circle is the UN café, the books are distributed around the left side of the café, and the right side of the café is stationery, toys, leather goods and other creative goods, and the three zones are unbounded and blended with each other. Compared with the Beijing Road store, the Gaode Plaza store has fewer books and more cluttered partitions, especially the main reading area on the left side of the entrance, with a wide variety of books and most of them bestsellers, and the guidance is not satisfactory. However, the second half of the book display area, such as art, film, philosophy, social science and other books, is relatively professional and refined, and the classification is relatively clear and clear. If you're shopping on Beijing Road or Gaode Plaza, you might as well move to United Bookstore to soak up the cultural atmosphere, order a cup of coffee, and enjoy a moment of quiet in the bustling business district.