Passengers perpare to board a ship to leave Pingtan Island, southeast China's Fujian province, for Taipei city, southeast China's Taiwan, Oct 9, 2013. Fujian's Pingtan comprehensive experiment zone and Taiwan's Taipei on Wednesday saw the first voyage of the high-speed passenger ship, which took people about 2 hours and a half on one way trip. Pingtan Island, the fifth largest island in China, is the one closest to Taiwan. (Xinhua/Lin Shanchuan)