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The commercial district's signature structure,a five-passage,six-col- umn decorative archway,towers imposingly over the 600-year-oldQianmen Street.The gray stone-slab pedes-trian walkway accepts the millions of foot-falls trod by waves of tourists and shop-pers,while the resonant clang-clang of thesightseeing cars calls to mind Old Beijing.