For French baker, China is all about love and loaves

French native Jean-Pierre Morel, now in his 50s, has loved the smell of baking since he was a little boy. At the age of 16, he became an apprentice at a bakery in Paris. When he was 24, he opened his first bakery, and now has three independent bakeries in the French capital.

At the time, he hardly imagined that his next bakery would be in China.

In 2008, a turning point came into his life. At a friend's party, Morel met a charming Chinese woman close to his own age named Jenny. She had been living and working in Paris for two decades, and by their second meeting, the two knew they were in love.