New regime will spur officials to get out of the office and talk directly to ordinary residents, as Macao prepares for the next Five-Year Development Plan.
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Airport chief hopes flying a mix of passengers and cargo will be a new revenue stream, after facing up to unprecedented challenges in 2020.
Massive investment in road, rail, air and sea links includes faster access to GBA neighbours Hong Kong and Macao.
The new tours will be aimed at locals and visitors, part of a campaign to attract tourists from GBA and tier-one mainland cities.
Guangdong province, in South China, will accelerate the development of the intercity railway network in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area to help boost the local economy.
The government will upgrade the area of responsibility of the Economic Services Bureau (DSE) in February when it will also be tasked with promoting Macao’s scientific and technological innovation.
Yin Rutao of the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) told journalists from Macao’s English- and Portuguese-language media last week he wishes that Macao, the Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the whole nation, as well as Portugal, will succeed in their Covid-19 prevention and control measures and achieve an economic recovery as soon as possible.
The three-day “1st Macao Quality of Life Expo” co-organised by the Macau Jiangmen Chamber of Commerce and the Jiangmen Association of Enterprises with Foreign Investment, which started on Friday, attracted 230 companies from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA), according to a statement provided by the organiser.
Macao continues to assist Guizhou’s Congjiang county in getting rid of poverty.