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A courtyard house in an old quarter of Fuzhou, capital of the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, has become the unlikeliest of national pilgrimage sites.
For decades, the residence at No 1 Jiangqiandeng in Luozhou town, Cangshan district, was a crumbling relic, housing nearly a dozen families who lived among peeling paint and rotting wood close to the tree-lined banks of the Min River.
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But in October, everything changed thanks to a hit drama, Silent Honour, about Communist spies executed in Taiwan, one of whom, Wu Shi, used to live there.
The following month, the families were moved out and in a frantic three-month burst of activity the property was renovated. It opened its doors in early February, just in time to greet the rush of visitors – up to 20,000 a day – over Chinese New Year.
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Since April, it has since been designated as one of the country’s 25 “National Security Education Bases” – sites used to promote national security awareness.
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