国内英语资讯:Xi Focus: Xi and his firm support for Macaos prosperity, stability_时事

国内英语资讯:Xi Focus: Xi and his firm support for Macaos prosperity, stability

Xi on various occasions gave policy directions for Macao: integrate into the country's development, nurture new growth drivers, promote appropriately diversified and sustainable economic development, prioritize economic development and livelihood improvement.

Meeting Chui who was on a duty visit to Beijing in December 2017, Xi said the central authorities attach great importance to Macao's prosperity and stability.

Support was given to Macao in building the region into a world center of tourism and leisure as well as a platform for commercial and trade cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.

Macao was also encouraged to boost the sectors of conferences and exhibitions, traditional Chinese medicine, education services and cultural creation.

Limited land area has long been a bottleneck of Macao's development.

In December 2017, Xi announced the central authorities' decision to start working on the demarcation of Macao's maritime waters.

According to a map released by the central government a year later, an 85-square-km sea area shall be administered by the Macao SAR.

Macao's development space has also expanded over the years as it kept integrating its development into the country's development blueprint such as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA).