CULTURE, KINSHIP EASE PASSAGE ACROSS STRAIT

More Taiwan compatriots move to Fujian province as incentives rolled out. Zhang Yi, Shi Xuefan and Hu Meidong report.

An ancient temple in Chengnei village, Xiamen city, Fujian province, has helped attract a group of young Taiwan entrepreneurs who are inspired by its historic and cultural links to the island.

Lai Shu-jen, a young musician from Taiwan, has been promoting rural culture to aid the vitalization of Xiamen. She has written a song about the village's Xiacheng City God Temple which contains the words: "Grandmother told me that beyond the sea, there is a City God temple, that's where our roots are."

In the 1850s immigrants from Fujian who traveled to Taiwan built the Xiahai City God Temple in Taipei which has since become popular with worshippers.