Economic zone recruits across Straits

BEIJING - An economic development zone in East China's Fujian province will enact policies favorable to professionals from Taiwan to collaboratively build the new area, said Fujian authorities on Tuesday.

Pingtan Island, slightly larger than island country Malta, lies 125 kilometers away from Taiwan's Hsinchu and is the Chinese mainland's closest point to Taiwan.

"Pingtan will explore a new cooperation model between the mainland and Taiwan," said Fan Hengshan, director of the regional economy department under the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planner, at a news conference on Tuesday.