Foreigners working in China: The prosperous country offering us unlimited opportunities

Berenice Zandonai in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda (Dayan Pagoda), an ancient building and a holy place for Buddhists in Xi’an. (Photo/Xinhua)

The extensive and profound Chinese culture, continuously optimized investment environment, ever-growing job opportunities; China has become increasingly attractive to foreigners with a Chinese dream, Xinhuanet.com reported on Nov. 20.

With the country’s continuous efforts to open its market up to the world over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, China has invited more and more foreigners to work, study and live in the country, providing those who come with great prospects.

Berenice Zandonai is a French woman who fell in love with a Chinese man named Huang Zhen when he moved to Toulouse, France to study. Following Huang, Berenice Zandonai came to China soon after graduation, and got a job in a French apparel company in Shanghai, staying there for seven years between 2007 and 2014.

In 2014, the couple returned to Huang’s hometown Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi province, and co-founded a studio to provide customers with creative cultural products. They use a variety of methods such as hand drawing, illustration, We Media, and the development of original cultural products.

They are also focused on publicizing traditional Chinese culture and promoting cultural exchanges between China and France, launching a number of GIFs featuring the intangible cultural heritage projects of Shaanxi, publishing many bilingual audiobooks for children, and translating and editing French subtitles for many Chinese movies and stage plays.