As a research professor at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health （GIBH）, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Miguel Esteban is the first non-Chinese scientist to chair a major scientific research program in China. Born and educated in Spain and the UK. he worked in Madrid and London as a scholar and physician before joining GIBH in January 2008. Just two years after his arrival, in 20J0, Professor Esteban was named by the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology as the chief scientist of a five-year major research program on stem cell study with a grant up to 28 million yuan （about 4.4 million US dollars）. The following is a brief interview between BCAS reporter XIN Ling and the Professor about his work and life in China.