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After the success aruba vacation rentals of the Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai Expo, people around the world saw the rapid growth and development of China. As China gained prominence as an emerging market, t he Chinese Government wanted to grab the attention of more foreign investors, in particular, overseas Chinese, and encourage them to invest in China. Therefore, the government decided to partially sponsor some guided tours of China for overseas Chinese from Australia, USA and Canada.
The tours include 5 star accommodations, three meals a day, a tour guide (speaking either Mandarin or Cantonese - the English speaking tour is an additional cost), airport transfers and a coach bus driver (so you don't have to navigate China's dangerous roads by yourself).
The main reason why it's so cheap is because the government is only partially sponsoring aruba vacation rentals these tours; the local merchants in each city are also sponsoring the tour. This means that the tour includes visits to the merchants where they sell you stuff (from tea to jadeite, silk products aruba vacation rentals to freshwater pearls and even some feng shui stuff). The good part about the tours is that all these local merchants are government approved merchants (meaning you won't get ripped off too terribly, but you're probably paying a lot more for stuff than locals would pay).
At the end of the day, you're probably spending 1/2 your time sightseeing and 1/2 shopping at the sponsor stores. That's not too bad and on the plus side, if you convert everything you buy into CAD or USD, it's much cheaper to buy it in China than it is to buy it in Canada or the US - so you're saving quite a bit stimulating China's economy at the same time: win-win situation?