Top officials of Macao and Guangdong today studied the principles and measures under the framework of the Eleventh Five-year Plan and reached consensus for further partnership in various directions. The Chief Executive of Macao SAR, Mr Edmund Ho Hau Wah, and the Governor of Guangdong Province, Mr Huang Huahua, attended the 'Guangdong-Macao Co-operation Joint Conference 2006' in Zhuhai today. They led dozens of high-ranking officials of the two Governments respectively to attend the conference and delivered speeches at its opening. Macao's Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Francis Tam Pak Yuen, and the Executive Vice-Governor of Guangdong Province, Mr Tang Bingquan, reviewed the achievements of the partnership of the two Governments since the first conference in 2003. At the meeting, they discussed further co-operation in areas including partnership in service industry under the framework of Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA) and the building of the Zhuhai-Macao Crossborder Industrial Zone. More co-operation in food safety, public hygiene, environment protection, water supply, infrastructures across jurisdictions and the building of the Hengqin Economic Development Zone, were also being discussed. Moreover, the two parties studied 15 key projects for further co-operation. The two parties agreed to further work together in different areas to pursue the betterment of Guangdong and Macao.
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