Indonesian Paper Strikes Deal to Promote Stories for Guangdong’s Jiangmen

A nine-person delegation from Indonesia’s Thousand Islands Daily (千島日報) visited Jiangmen City on April 26, 2024, where they signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Jiangmen Overseas Chinese Media Center (江門市僑媒中心). The deal establishes a regular column called “Jiangmen Stories” in the Indonesian newspaper, targeting the ethnic Chinese community in Indonesia with content about this prominent emigration region in China. Wu Mengxuan (吳夢暄), the newspaper’s director, attended alongside officials from the Jiangmen Returned Overseas Chinese Federation (江門市歸國華僑聯合會), which controls the Overseas Chinese Media Center — including its Party group member and deputy chairman Yu Zequan (余澤權). The ceremony emphasized the strategic importance of reaching Indonesian Chinese readers with narratives about China. The Thousand Islands Daily was founded in 2000 by Zhang Mingkai (張明開), an overseas Chinese leader from Jiangmen who reportedly died in 2011 while “seeking aid” in China. The Overseas Chinese Federation is a mass organization under Chinese Communist Party leadership that operates as part of the party’s united front system.