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The year 2022 marks the 40^th anniversary of the establishment of the Cultural Affairs Bureau. The Cultural Affairs Bureau launched the 2022 desk calendar under the theme of “Culture is integrated with life, every minute and second”, promoting the beauty of culture to Macao residents. The calendar features 12 scenes of Macao’s cultural life created by a Macao designer and illustrator and texts by local writers, demonstrating the integration of culture and life. The public will have a chance to receive a beautiful desk calendar at the distribution points at the designated time or when participating in the online game. In 2022, the Cultural Affairs Bureau will continue to dedicate itself to cultural dissemination, launching various activities to promote culture, cultural inheritance and innovation, increasing the cultural awareness of the entire population, creating a good cultural atmosphere for the public, strengthening the dissemination of Macao’s culture, and consolidating the image of a “Cultural Macao”.
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The IFTM Wine Appreciation Club, an affiliate of the IFTM Student Union was invited to support the “2021 Portuguese Speaking Countries Products and Services Exhibition (Macao)” (2021PLPEX) by promoting wines and spirits produced by Portuguese speaking countries to professional buyers and representatives of the food and beverage industry for three consecutive days in the “Tasting Area” inside the exhibition.
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To facilitate the application and development of satellite positioning technology in Macao, Cartography and Cadastre Bureau (DSCC) has completed the enhancement of the “Macao Satellite Positioning Reference Station Service (MoSRef)”, the newly refined services, including the raw observation data download and RTK correction service, now support the BeiDou Navigation Satellite signals. More efficient and reliable high-accuracy positioning services are provided for professional users in the fields of surveying and mapping, geographic information, construction surveying, pipeline surveying, deformation monitoring and earth science research, etc.
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Health quarantine requirements and measures for inbound travellers of different identities.
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To support the moderate diversification of Macao’s economy, research teams at the University of Macau (UM) have made impressive progress in forging business partnerships, nurturing talent, creating platforms for international cooperation, and pushing forward the standardisation and internationalisation of Chinese medicine. The teams led by Prof Wang Yitao and Prof Li Shaoping have also established quality standards for a dozen Chinese medicinal plants for authoritative publications such as European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.), United States Pharmacopeia (USP), and Chinese Pharmacopoeia (ChP), in order to support the health industry in Macao and other parts of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
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The Department of History of the University of Macau (UM) has successfully completed the Digital Humanities Project www.QingMaps.org. The project consists of three enormous maps produced during the Qing dynasty and enables searches, analyses and annotations of approximately 70,000 place names.
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Macao Polytechnic Institute has published the new issue of the Journal of One Country Two Systems Studies (Issue 2, 2021). First printed in July 2009, this academic periodical is published by the “One Country, Two Systems” Research Centre of MPI, with the objective to give the public an insight into the “One Country, Two Systems” policy, promote research on topics related to governance and the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, maintain the progress of the SAR society, and establish an academic platform for the study of “One Country, Two Systems”.
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