Professor develops 'Chinese heart'

Xiamen University business professor William Brown, 62, has spent nearly half his life in southeastern China's Fujian province developing what he calls a "Chinese heart".

The fluent Mandarin speaker hails from the United States but has lived in Xiamen, one of China's five earliest special economic zones, for 30 years.

In that time, he has witnessed the country's hardships and development, with heavy investment from Taiwan and Hong Kong, as well as foreign countries, helping to put Xiamen at the forefront of China's reform and opening-up.