Foreign expertise giving local designers a boost

FUZHOU - Dragons, palm trees, surfing ... a 41-year-old American designer is discussing new shirt designs featuring these elements with his Chinese colleagues.

"This season was inspired by the tropical weather and environment here," said Chris Won Yoon, a designer at Fujian Qipai Group, a garment maker in Jinjiang, a manufacturing hub for clothing and footwear in East China's Fujian province.

In 2014, after working for Calvin Klein in New York for six and a half years, he decided to move to China.