I went on one of these shopping trips 2-3 years ago. The sales and even the tour guides can get very aggressive. But use your head and don't get pressured into buying and you should be fine. They are very experienced in their sales pitch and they usually target the easy ones by priority. If you don't show much interest in their shit or appear to be tight with your wallet they probably won't target you. In my experience then we usually arrived with other tour groups at the shopping sites. They don't have enough manpower to mark you guys one by one. There will probably be more than enough people to buy that you'd won't be pressured to.
I had a NUN in my group along with a older well-spoken wealthy looking couple from Sydney. Needless to say all the sales guys just flat out avoided the nun, and the couple was targeted all the way during the trip.
My itinery was very similar to yours, but I didn't go to Beijing.
So I can guarantee from your itinery already, that is a shopping tour. Also the 'excursion's are much more expensive than what I paid. Basically you are forced to go pay for these as the tourbus won't be willing to drive you to the hotel first to rest, and due to responsibility issue they probably won't allow you to taxi to the hotel and check in yourself if you decide not to join those night activities. I am chinese however, so maybe the english tours are more expensive idk.
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Suzhou - Wuxi (AB, L, D)
This morning, visit a Silk Spinning Mill
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Read : Visit Silk factory buying at 'wholesale' prices
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Wuxi - Hangzhou (AB, L)
This morning, visit one of the largest Fresh Water Pearl Farms in the country, followed by tea pot museum
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Read : expensive pearls and buying special looking tea pots you won't use ever
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Morning, experience an oriental tea-tasting at the Dragon Well Tea Plantation
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Read : Selling you made in china tea leaves that will be more expensive gram-by-gram than imported weed
I also see a lot of Jade stops. I'm not a jeweler by trade but jade is one of those things that are very subjective and fluctuate in price. Good luck.
Last advice I have is... They'll most likely take you to a chinese herbal medicine place.
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Then, visit a Tong Ren Tang to learn about traditional Chinese medicine
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Where 'doctor's will give you a short examination for 'free'. I tend to find many fall for the trap here, and buy chinese herbs/treatment/meds at insane prices. I've heard of cases here where people was charged 10,000+USD.
A lot of people fail here because health is priceless, and will go along with whatever the 'doctor' says. But just remember those aren't doctors, they are salesmen.