Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng will pay a four-day working visit to eight cities in Guangdong province that are part of the GBA.
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The central government has started a three-year pilot programme to enable law practitioners from Hong Kong and Macao to practice law in nine cities of Guangdong province.
Macao can learn how to develop through innovation from Shenzhen’s experience of its 40-year reform and opening-up, and play a unique role in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) and the national development, said a Macao scholar Ip Kuai Peng in a recent interview with Xinhua.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng attended Wednesday morning’s ceremony to mark the 40th anniversary of Shenzhen as a special economic zone (SEZ).
Xi Jinping has asked Shenzhen to take active moves to further promote the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, calling for efforts to synergise economic rules and mechanisms in the three regions.
The fact that a number of new local Covid-19 cases were confirmed in Guangdong last week will not affect next week’s resumption of the issuing of Individual Visit Scheme (IVS) and group tours permits for Guangdong residents to travel to Macao.
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.
The Guangdong government will lift its 14-day quarantine requirement on all arrivals from Macao from tomorrow, the local government’s Novel Coronavirus Response and Coordination Centre announced in a statement Monday night.
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.