Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news

Chinese tourists spend up to US$987 per capita on shopping overseas, the highest in the world, according to a latest survey by ACNielsen and Tax Free World Association (TFWA) of 1,500 consumers from Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou who have toured abroad for the last half a year, today's Oriental Morning Post reported.
Among them, Shanghai travelers are the biggest spenders, with average shopping bills of U$1,781 in Europe.
The number of Chinese traveling overseas hit 29 million last year, up 43 percent from a year earlier.
Although Chinese total tourism expenditures for per trip rank second in the world, next only to Japan, shopping, one third of the total travel cost, ranks China No.1 worldwide.