SHANGHAI TOUR - BEFORE

Gray Line will organize morning pick-up at your hotel. First, we visit free market to see the agricultural products, and enjoy how local people do shopping and negotiate. After that is Senior Citizen’s College, where the senior citizens spend their retired life. Next is Kindergarten, which is paradise of Chinese children. Then, we are going to visit Neighborhood Committee, where the staff will give us a lecture about local people’s life and development of residential area. And we are free to ask the questions. Finally, we will visit a local family, and talk each other. The ebullient hostess will teach us how to make Chinese Dumpling, a kind of traditional refreshment with thousands of years’ history. We will have lunch together with families.

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SHANGHAI TOUR - AFTER

Cao Yang was the first community founded by the People's Republic of China in 1951 as a residence for working class people. It is typical of the communities built for local citizens, containing everything they need to live: schools, hospitals, nursing homes, shopping centers and local markets. During this five-hour excursion, you will start at the Free Market where the local agriculture is displayed and purchased. Then you'll see how the community works with its youngest and oldest citizens, with visits to a Kindergarten and Senior Citizen's College. Next, it's on to a Neighborhood meeting and lecture on the local customs, followed by a visit with a local family where you will discover what life is really like in Shanghai. The family will demonstrate the art of making Chinese dumplings, a traditional refreshment with thousands of years of history. And finally, you will have lunch with the locals.

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