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Golden Resources Mall

Golden Resources Mall is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Golden Resources Mall rather than just read about it. In short: Golden Resources Shopping Mall, or Jin Yuan (abbreviated from Chinese: 金源时代购物中心) is a major shopping mall located near the northwest Fourth Ring Road in Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China. It was the largest mall by gross leasable area until 2005, when South China Mall in Dongguan, China was completed.

Key takeaways

Golden Resources Mall belongs to engineering; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Golden Resources Mall to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Golden Resources Mall from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Golden Resources Shopping Mall, or Jin Yuan (abbreviated from Chinese: 金源时代购物中心) is a major shopping mall located near the northwest Fourth Ring Road in Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China. It was the largest mall by gross leasable area until 2005, when South China Mall in Dongguan, China was completed. It can be accessed by the Beijing Subway using Changchun Qiao station (Lines 10 & 12) or Landianchang station (Line 12). In older English reports in 2000s, the mall was nicknamed "Great Mall of China" due to its total area of 560,000 square metres (6 million square feet) over six floors. At 1.5 times the size of the Mall of America, Golden Resources Mall was the world's largest shopping mall from 2004 to 2005. The mall opened on 24 October 2004. Footfall had been estimated at 50,000 a day, but upon opening was as small as 20 in an hour. At the time, prices were far beyond the purchasing ability of most ordinary Chinese, and the mall was relatively inaccessible, being located in the sparsely populated outer suburbs of Beijing between the 3rd and 4th ring road. Fu Yuehong, general manager of the New Yansha Group which operates nearly half the mall, explains:

From the beginning we wanted the largest shopping center in the world [...] We are the country with the most people in the world. We have the fastest growing economy. The largest mall shows our progress as a society [...] We think it will take three to five years to start making a profit.

By 2022, with the growth of the Chinese middle class, and the expansion of Beijing to place the mall in its urban area surrounded by apartment complexes, the number of shoppers had increased tremendously; the mall was crowded on weekends.

Transport

The East District of the shopping mall is located near Exit B of Changchun Qiao station (Subway Lines 10 and 12), and the West District of the shopping mall is located near Exit B of Landianchang station (Subway Line 12).

See also List of largest shopping malls in the world List of shopping malls in China

References

External links Official website

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Golden Resources Mall

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Golden Resources Mall claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Golden Resources Mall before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Golden Resources Mall ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Golden Resources Mall

In research: Golden Resources Mall appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Golden Resources Mall in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Golden Resources Mall is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Buildings and structures completed in 2004, Buildings and structures in Haidian, Beijing, Shopping malls established in 2004, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Golden Resources Mall outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Golden Resources Mall in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Golden Resources Mall means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Golden Resources Mall out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Golden Resources Mall in simple terms?

Why does Golden Resources Mall matter?

Because it connects several engineering ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Golden Resources Mall?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Golden Resources Mall.