Billionaires live the high-life in China's hospital hot spot

When I asked a taxi driver in Putian city, Fujian province, if he knew Dongzhuang town, he gave me a look that seemed to say, "Are you kidding me? Heck, yeah!"

Dongzhuang, with a population of 80,000, is located about 30 km from downtown Putian. It's home to "about 21,000 people in the healthcare business in more than 100 cities across the country", according to the local Meizhou Daily, and about 80 percent of China's private hospitals were established by entrepreneurs from the town.

When the car drove into Dongzhuang, I immediately realized that it's not just the high-profile nature of the place that had made the driver react the way he did.