Overseas Chinese trader witnesses years of development

Over the past 30 years, Huang Zhixiao has traveled back and forth between China and Italy nearly 300 times. As a member of the overseas Chinese community, he's witnessed China's transformation from a backward developing country to the world's second-largest economy, and how it has become "a big country that takes responsibilities in the world community".

Huang, 51, hails from Wenzhou, Zhejiang province. Wenzhou is well known as the "home of overseas Chinese", with nearly 700,000 overseas Chinese from there scattered across more than 130 countries and regions worldwide.

"When I first went to Italy in 1992, I was not yet 20 years old," Huang said.