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She, like hundreds of thousands of others, has been carried on a global tide of migration that is swelling our cities and towns.
She left China because she believes in a better future here – and wants to help build it.
"It's different here," she says.
"Home is the place to rest, but Melbourne is a place to dream, to live my life."
Census data, released today, reveals more than four in every ten people living in Greater Melbourne were born overseas, up 3.5 per cent.
Australia-wide, 66.7 per cent of people were born here, down from 88.2 in 2001.
There are 155,998 Chinese migrants living in Melbourne now, an increase of more than 70 per cent since the last census in 2011.
This picture of rapid growth gets more dramatic as you leaf back through older census reports. There are 509,555 Chinese-born Australians today; in 2001, the number was 142,780.
Ms Zhuang, 27, was born in Urumqi, the capital city of China's north-western fruitbowl province, Xinjiang.
After studying statistics at university in Shanghai, she emigrated in 2012 to study a Masters of International Economics and Finance at the University of Queensland.
About 500,000 international students will choose to study in Australia this year, the vast majority of them Chinese.
She moved to Melbourne in 2014, her 457 visa freshly stamped, and now she works as an investment analyst at BMY Group, a wealth-management firm that caters to Chinese investors looking to buy Australian assets.
"I like the weather," she says.
"The weather at home is somewhat like Melbourne, it's hot in the summer and windy and cold in the winter, but colder than Melbourne."
Ms Zhuang is a renter, like a growing number of Australians – although she is lucky enough have an investment property in Doncaster, currently rented out to pay off the mortgage.
There are almost 475,000 rented properties in Greater Melbourne, up from almost 390,000 in 2011; across Australia, 2.56 million properties are rented, up from 1.85 million in 2001.
Ms Zhuang lives in an apartment in Southbank, although she and her boyfriend are looking for somewhere a bit bigger to move in together.
Having lived in Shanghai, Melbourne's real estate prices don't concern her.
"Yes it's expensive, relative to average salaries. But if you look at the Chinese housing market, or other Asian cities, it's not expensive at all.
"You can get a big house here for the same price that an apartment costs in Shanghai."
Eventually she plans to buy a place in Box Hill or Glen Waverley, where the Chinese community has put down roots.
Then, she hopes, the rest of her family will be able to join her in her new home.