The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.

CNN: Video?shows?8 Chinese held in Iraq

The state-run Chinese news agency Xinhua quoted sources in China's embassy confirming the men were construction workers from China's southern province of Fujian who were in Iraq to help rebuild an Iraqi plant.

CNN: Video:?8 Chinese?hostages?in Iraq

Nanyin is a musical performing art central to the culture of the people of Minnan in southern Fujian Province along China s south-eastern coast, and to Minnan populations overseas.

UNESCO: Culture