The new Hengqin immigration port to facilitate travel between Macao and Zhuhai was officially put into use on Tuesday.
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Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng met with the leading officials from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council and the National Development and Reform Commission to discuss Macao’s economic diversification strategy.
The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted a decision to allow law practitioners in Hong Kong and practising lawyers in Macao to qualify and work as lawyers in nine cities of Guangdong province on a trial basis.
A review of the Greater Bay Area in southern China has identified shortcomings that have slowed progress on Beijing’s plan for the region to become a hi-tech hub, including not enough research facilities and poor coordination and flow of talent and capital between the cities.
China will invest CNY 474.1 billion (US$67.9 billion) to improve rail connection in the Greater Bay Area, building 775 km (480 miles) of intercity railway and five transport hubs, according to a plan approved by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Major airports within the Greater Bay Area (GBA) would achieve consolidation into a single airport cluster by 2025 under a proposal issued by the Civil Aviation Administration of China.
Covid-19’s adverse impact on Macao’s economy exposed its over-dependence on the gaming industry. Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng pledges his government will push ahead with economic diversification.
The public University of Macau (UM) and state-owned Nam Kwong Petroleum & Chemicals Co. Ltd. (NKOIL) have signed a strategic cooperation framework agreement.
The Macao government will be extending the scope for the quarantine waiver to include 8 other Greater Bay Area (GBA) cities, according to a statement from the Government Information Bureau (GCS) this morning.