As a Thai, I want to share my experience too. Most of the
Mainland Chinese who keep coming to Thailand are from the provinces
other than Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan where most of our
grandparents were from. Most of these mainlanders I have
encountered these days are the natives of Shanghai, Beijing,
Tianjin, Anhui, Hunan, Yunnan, .... well technicallly from all over
China but not from Guangdong, Chaoshan or Fujian.
There is one reason I noticed and I am talking about Thailand
only...... There are a growing number of local Thai girls (those
with darker complexion) going to study mandarin in the mainland.
China is running short of young female population while Thai girls
are good at hooking up (and a certain thing that follows after)
with foreigners. Thailand is already a very open and extremely
free-sex country although it is politically incorrect to openly say
so in this so-called 'buddhist' country. In the meantime, Chinese,
Koreans, and Japanese or namely North Asians have increasingly
become their favourites. My girlfriend told me that, among Thai
girls these days, anyone who can hook up with North Asian men get
higher scores (打分) than with Thai men!