Zhu Renmin, nicknamed “the person of the ocean of lotus”, is a male born in November 1949, and is originally from Yuhuan in Zhejiang province. When he was four years old, he learned to paint from his grandfather Pan Tianshou. As a seven-year-old boy he began to live on an island with his parents. During this period he traveled through 15 countries. In 1992, after returning home, he became president of the Landscape Architectural Design Institute at China’s Academy of Arts. In 1996, he spent 9 million Yuan to buy a 40 year lease of an unmanned island. The island is located in Zhejiang province and is part of the Pu Tuo district. Zhu became the first owner of an unmanned island in China.