At the inauguration ceremony of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region bureau of People’s Daily on November 9, the state newspaper’s president Zhang Yannong emphasized the importance of reporting on Hong Kong and predicted the paper’s grand overseas expansion. Two days later, People’s Daily launched its Macao branch.
Source: Xinhua, September 9 and 11, 2009
http://news.xinhuanet.com/gangao/2009-11/09/content_12419673.htm
http://politics.people.com.cn/GB/1026/10360293.html