The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, will lead a Government delegation to Hong Kong on Thursday (21 February), to attend a seminar on the outline development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (Greater Bay Area).
During the seminar, the Chief Executive will deliver a speech. Officials from the National Reform and Development Commission will also introduce the outline development plan.
The 50-member Government delegation will be include some members of the Executive Council and Macao delegates to, respectively, the National People’s Congress and the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference.
The Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac; the Chief-of-Office of the Chief Executive’s Office, Ms O Lam; the Director of the Government Information Bureau, Mr Chan Chi Ping; the Director of the Protocol, Public Relations and External Affairs Office, Ms Lei Ut Mui; and the Director of the Policy Research and Regional Development Bureau, Mr Mi Jian, will be among the Macao officials taking part.
The Government has taken a number of measures to ensure Macao acts in concert with the Central Government’s overall planning for the Greater Bay Area, Such measures have included: the organisation of a youth forum regarding opportunities created for young people by the Greater Bay Area; the updating of Macao’s initiatives for the Greater Bay Area and their inclusion in the city’s Five-Year Development Plan; and the creation of the Working Committee for the Development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
The Working Committee was established in November 2018. It held its first meeting in late January, in order to press ahead with the next phase of Macao’s preparations for the Greater Bay Area.