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So, when he moved to China around eight years ago and got a job occasionally polishing scripts for the Chinese animated series All New Jackie Chan Adventures, he was very excited and succeeded in persuading the show's Chinese investors to include him as one of the scriptwriters, where he penned five episodes.

"If you are brave enough to speak up and show yourself, you will find many opportunities in China, especially in the creative field," says Wilson, 44, who has married and settled down in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province.

Now focused on developing his own animated TV series, Bad Peanut, about an anthropomorphic peanut who is naughty like a child, Wilson says he has tried to seek partners or investors in the country.

With its burgeoning entertainment industry, China, the second-largest film and TV market in the world, is seeing more and more foreigners seeking collaboration and opportunities.