Most of the bars and stores in Sanlitun are open during Chinese New Year. Some stores will shorten their opening hours on Chinese New Year's Eve and usually return to normal opening hours by the third day of the Lunar New Year.

Sanlitun Taikoo Li shopping mall in particular, due to shopping, dining, entertainment and other adsorption of a large number of people, the cumulative foot traffic has reached 52,000 people.