Another Taiwanese funded enterprise, the footwear industry, has been put into trial in Licheng Economic Development Zone, west end town, Putian, Fujian.

Up to now, Putian has approved four hundred and twenty-one Taiwan funded projects with an investment amounting to US $more than 800000000.

Entering the footwear industry is the tenth venture invested by Guo Xiusong, a Taiwanese businessman, in Putian. The total investment of the company is about fifty million yuan, and the annual output value can reach 150000000 yuan after commissioning.

Guo Xiusong, the president of the Putian Association of Taiwanese businessmen, is a native Mazu maid who was born in Taiwan. The statue of Mazu was stamped on his business card as an identification.

Mr. Guo has invested in the first shoe company in Putian since 1989, and now has ten companies. The field of investment has also developed from a single shoe industry to the present situation of comprehensive agricultural development, logistics and service industries.

Over the past eighteen years, Mr. Guo's family business has grown stronger in Putian.

He said: "the first choice in Putian is closer to Taiwan, hoping to achieve" three links ", but for eighteen years, we have been looking forward to achieving the" three links "at an early date.