Recently, Singapore's former Foreign Minister Yang Rongwen (whose ancestors settled in Chaoshan) returned to Shantou for visiting friends and relatives. He visited the Port-opening Area of Shantou Small Park, tasted Chaoshan cuisine, and experienced the new vibrancy and changes in the city's development. During the meeting, Wen Zhanbin, Secretary of the CPC Shantou Municipal Committee, introduced the social and economic development of Shantou City, especially the development status and huge potential of new energy and new-generation electronic information industries, and warmly invited Yang Rongwen and his entourage to Shantou to attend the "Two Major International Chaoshan People Grand Events"(the 22nd Teochew International Convention and the 10th World Chaoshan Entrepreneurs Convention) in 2024. Yang Rongwen gladly accepted the invitation, and he hoped that Shantou would take advantage of Chaozhou people's kinship relations bound by blood, building a "heart-to-heart bridge" for overseas Chaozhou people to return to their hometown Shantou for businesses, and tap the potential of overseas Chinese in the new era.

Source:Shantou Daily,Nov 21, 2023

　　新加坡前外长杨荣文一行回汕探亲

　　近日，祖籍潮汕的新加坡前外长杨荣文回汕头探亲，参观游览小公园开埠区，品尝潮汕美食，感受城市发展新气象新变化。市委书记温湛滨在会见中介绍了我市社会经济发展情况，尤其是新能源、新一代电子信息等产业的发展现状和巨大潜力，并热情邀请杨荣文一行2024年来汕出席“两大国际潮人盛会”。杨荣文欣然应邀并表示，希望汕头以血浓于水的乡情纽带，架起海外乡亲返乡兴业“连心桥”，做好新时代“侨”的文章。

来源：汕头日报 2023-11-21