City going extra mile to attract investors

Pingtan has seen an influx from Taiwan and expects the number to grow to at least 200,000

Editor's Note: China Daily is publishing a series of reports on cross-Straits relations as Taiwan's new leader takes office. The reports are jointly compiled with the Taipei-based China Post. This, the fifth and also the last in the series, explores the measures the mainland city closest to Taiwan takes to attract talent from Taiwan, and what expectations the experts and businessmen have for the new leader.

As an increasing number of people from Taiwan have been taking advantage of opportunities on the mainland, Pingtan, the mainland's closest city to Taiwan, has introduced a range of tailor-made policies to attract talent from across the Straits.