The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, meets with the President of Jinan University, Mr Hu Jun.
The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, today met with the President of Jinan University, Mr Hu Jun, to exchange views on the tertiary education sector and on talent development. Mr Chui is on a two-day visit to Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, following an invitation from Jinan University to participate in the celebrations of the 110th anniversary of the institution’s establishment. During the meeting, Mr Chui said he noted that a great many talented people in Macao had been educated at the University. Such people provided a basis for the further development of Macao. The Chief Executive said students that had graduated from the University had made great contributions in different sectors of Macao’s community. The Government would continue to strengthen its partnership with the University, in a bid to provide more opportunities for Macao’s young people to study there, and to support the city’s development by ensuring it had a supply of talented people. Mr Hu said he was pleased to see the Chief Executive at the University’s anniversary celebration, and was thankful for the long-term support of the SAR Government. The presence of Mr Chui at the celebration would be an encouragement to the approximately 50,000 students and lecturers at the University. Jinan University would increase the quota of Macao young people admissible to the institution, while continuing to cooperate with the SAR Government and people from different sectors of the community in Macao, in order to foster talent development and the training of a greater number of professionals. During the meeting, Mr Chui and Mr Hu spoke highly of the efforts to promote closer ties between Macao and Jinan University that had been made by the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of Jinan University – and President of the Jinan University Macao Alumni Association – Mr Ma Iao Hang, and his Alumni Association. Government officials attending today’s meeting included: 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, Mr Fung Sio Weng; and the Director of the Health Bureau, Mr Lei Chin Ion. Mr Ma was also present at the meeting, along with the Vice President of Jinan University, Mr Song Xianzhong, and the Chief of the Board of the Directors’ Office, Ms Wu Xuanfeng. Mr Chui will return to Macao in the afternoon on Saturday (19 November). While he is in Guangzhou, the Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Leong Vai Tac, and the Secretary for Administration and Justice, Ms Chan Hoi Fan, are consecutively to take on the role of acting Chief Executive.