Going to school is no longer a pipe dream in the countryside, and seeing a doctor in rural areas is no longer arduous. China's blueprint for the future constantly inspires people to dream bigger and bigger. Its transformations have also been witnessed by expatriates who came to China loaded with their own dreams. How have they interpreted the cavalcade of material and spiritual change that has swept China in recent decades? What does China mean to them? Fernando Muñoz Bernal, a Colombian entrepreneur and vlogger who came to China in 2000, and Brian Linden, the American founder of the Linden Centre who has lived in China off and on since 1984, shared their observations of China's metamorphosis.