Jason Boonham shares happy family hour with his wife and children in their apartment in Shanghai July 29, 2003. The 32-year-old Australian was recently voted into the "Ten Outstanding Youths in Pudong," becoming the first foreigner to receive such an honor.

Boonham became a member of a neighborhood committee in Pudong last December. About 40 percent of the residents in the neighborhood are foreigners.

Jason is now both manager of the finance department of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia and business development manager at the Shanghai branch of the China Life-CMG Life Assurance Company Ltd.

(China Daily Aug 6, 2003)