Editor's Note:

Here are the overseas Chinese youths’ great patriotic enthusiasm, here are the personal entrepreneurial experiences of outstanding ‘overseas returnees’, and here you can listen to the most sincere inner voice of the second generation of overseas Chinese. ...... From today, ‘Overseas Chinese Youthtalk’, a new bilingual video program which is produced by Lucheng District Returned Overseas Chinese Federation and Wenzhou Overseas Media Center, is officially released through the domestic and overseas media one after another. This video program selects the representative young overseas Chinese to tell their different life stories in the form of character interviews. At the same time, it is also hoped that these excellent young overseas Chinese could make friends through this program, further stimulating their enthusiasm for innovation and entrepreneurship! 

Character Profile:

Zhang Xiang, head of the Italian coffee academy (Expresso Academy) in China and founder of Wenzhou Star Education Institution.

She once studied a Master's degree in Media Culture and Society at the University of East Anglia in the UK, an experience that not only gave her a deep understanding of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural education, but also fostered her international outlook and cultural tolerance.

Zhang Xiang applies what she has learned in practice, and has successfully introduced the Italian coffee culture into China. She is dedicated to improving the professional skills of Chinese baristas and promoting Sino-Italian cultural exchanges through coffee. At the same time, the Wenzhou Star Education Institution, which she founded, focuses on children's aesthetic education and language training, aiming at cultivating children to become little overseas communication officers with the ability of international communication.

Through coffee, education and cultural exchanges, Zhang Xiang actively promotes the dialogue between Wenzhou and the world, spreading the story of Wenzhou.