More than 8,600 residence permits have been issued to Macao citizens in Hengqin, TDM has reported.
According to Zheng Renhao, Director of the Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission, an additional 503 people are working in the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone, twice as many as a year ago.
Macao residents have acquired around 9,000 properties in Hengqin. Zheng Renhao also said that over 53,000 Macao residents had received medical consultations in Hengqin and that 4,771 companies with Macao capital were operating in the zone.