The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, today visited Jiangmen, Zhaoqin and Foshan to enhance communication with cities in the Pearl River Delta. Mr Chui and the official delegation he led visited a food processing facility and warehouse in Jiangmen before they met with the Secretary of CPC Jiangmen Municipal Committee, Mr. Chen Jixing. Mr Chui told Mr Chen that the new administration of the Macao SAR had high regards for the Reform of the Pearl River Delta Region Development Plan (2008-2020), and would fully co-operate with Guangdong and Hong Kong in this area. He said Jiangmen’s tourism, training and business promotion had developed very fast and that attracted Macao to step up bilateral co-operation. Mr Chen Jixing said that under framework of the Plan, Macao and Jiangmen could strengthen co-operation on logistics, tourism and education. The delegation was welcomed to a luncheon hosted by the Jiangmen Municipal Committee before they left for Zhaoqing where they visited the Zhaoqing Hi-tech Industry Development Zone and a training centre for teachers. When the Secretary of CPC Zhaoqing Municipal Committee, Mr. Qin Weidong met with Mr Chui, Mr Qin described the relationship between Zhaoqing and Macao as very close as there were more than a hundred Macao entrepreneurs who had invested in agriculture, industry, tourism and real estate in Zhaoqing, totalling more than US$400 million. He said he expected Macao and Zhaoqing to strengthen co-operation on business and trading, service industry, tourism, education and culture. Mr Chui said he totally agreed with Mr Qin’s point of view and promised that Macao’s relevant departments would follow up. He also said that after Guangdong and Hong Kong had signed the “Hong Kong-Guangdong Cooperation Framework Agreement”, Guangdong and Macao had set up an ad hoc group to study details of co-operation on the Reform of the Pearl River Delta Region Development Plan and the “Hengqin Overall Development Plan”. He also said that the Governor of Guangdong Province, Mr Huang Huahua would visit Macao at the end of this month to discuss the details on the draft of the Macao-Guangdong Co-operation Framework Agreement at the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Joint Conference to be held in Macao. After the meeting, the delegation attended the welcome banquet hosted by Mr Qin. The delegation will visit Foshan tomorrow. The delegation included the Chief-of-Office of the Office of the Chief Executive, Mr Tam Chon Weng, the Secretary-General of Executive Council, Ms O Lam, the Director of Government Information Bureau, Mr Chan Chi Ping, Advisor of the Office of the Chief Executive, Mr Fung Sio Weng and Mr Kou Chin Hung, and Personal Assistant to the Chief Executive, Ms Tam Ka Wa.
