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London bridge is calling now

By Yang Feiyue and Erik Nilsson | China Daily | Updated: 2016-06-29 08:14

London bridge is calling now

A street scene at Selfridges in London. [Photo provided to China Daily]

"I would also reassure Brits living in European countries and European citizens living here that they will be no immediate changes ... in the way our people can travel, in the way our goods can move or the way our services can be sold."

For Zhang, the depreciated pound converts into more shopping-and perhaps romance.

Li says: "Brands like Burberry and those at factory stores were already cheaper-sometimes less than half as much as in China."

They'll be even more inexpensive.

But beyond retail therapy, the pound's depreciation also affords Zhang new opportunities to invest in affairs of the heart.

"I'd like to spend my honeymoon there soon," Zhang says.

Contact the writers through yangfeiyue@chinadaily.com.cn

Luo Wangshu and Su Zhou contributed to this story.

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