From Xu Liu, Xiamen, Southeast China's Fujian province.

Xiamen is administered as a sub-provincial coastal city of Fujian province. Xiamen and the surrounding southern Fujian countryside are the ancestral home to large communities of overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.

The city was a treaty port in the 19th century and one of the four original Special Economic Zones opened to foreign investment and trade when China began economic reforms in the early 1980s.

The famous Gulangyu Island in Xiamen. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The famous Gulangyu Island in Xiamen. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

The famous Gulangyu Island in Xiamen. [Photo/provided to chinadaily.com.cn]