Xiamen also historically known as Amoy, is a major city on the southeast coast ofChina. It has a population of 3,531,347.
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. It is endowed with educational and cultural institutions supported by the overseas Chinese diaspora. It has been ranked as China’s second “most suitable city for living”, as well as China’s “most romantic leisure city”