He brought in his youngest son, Yuan Shu-tzu, a journalism major, from Taiwan, and his eldest son, Yuan Kae-sheng, an outstanding journalist in Sao Paolo, to help him get the paper off the ground.
創報期間，還從台灣徵召了新聞編採科班出身的三子袁叔慈，連同在聖保羅新聞界已卓然有成的長子袁凱聲，父子三人，合力把報社創建起來。