In Zhangjiajie in Central China's Hunan province, there stands a glass bridge. Its Israeli designer, Haim Dotan, said it symbolizes love and nature.

"It will be a new icon in China," Dotan said in an interview on Sunday, a week after the bridge opened to the public for trial operation.

Born in Jerusalem, Dotan has a connection with China that is central to whohe is. His grandparents came to China in the 1910s, and in 1919 his mother was born in Shanghai.