Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai met with Communist Party of China (CPC) Jilin Provincial Committee Secretary Huang Qiang at the Government Headquarters on Tuesday where they exchanged views on strengthening cooperation between the two sides in various fields such as tourism and culture, healthcare and medicine, trade, and technology.
Welcoming Huang and members of his delegation to Macau, according to a Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) statement on Tuesday night, Sam expressed his gratitude for Jilin’s long-term support for Macau’s development.
Sam noted that over the past 25 years since Macau’s return to the motherland, the city has undergone transformative changes and achieved rapid socioeconomic development, while the implementation of the “One Country, Two Systems” principle with Macau characteristics has achieved enormous success.
According to the statement, Sam said that President Xi Jinping’s various important speeches delivered during his inspection visit to Macau in December last year lay out new requirements for Macau’s future development, which, the chief executive underlined, his government is committed to fulfilling and implementing.
Sam said he expects both sides to engage in deeper and broader exchanges and cooperation while Macau is fully advancing its appropriate economic diversification and high-quality development.
According to the statement, Sam also said that cultural and people-to-people exchanges between Macau and Jilin have grown increasingly frequent, with tourism and economic ties becoming ever closer. Sam noted that Jilin has a solid industrial foundation, where the big health industry is one of the province’s five key emerging industries, pointing out the Macau government’s ongoing efforts to promote the development of Macau’s big health industry.
Sam said he expects Macau and Jilin to jointly enhance the levels of development of their respective big health industries through deepening their cooperation.
According to the statement, Sam noted that Jilin has rich ecological and tourism resources, while Macau has been deepening the cross-sector integration of “tourism +” and expanding its visitor source markets. Consequently, he said, Macau and Jilin can complement each other’s resources and advantages with the aim of strengthening cooperation on tourism.
Moreover, Sam said, both sides can also continue strengthening exchanges in other fields such as technology, culture, and education.
Jilin Province, which borders North Korea, has 24 million inhabitants.
Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai (right) meets with Communist Party of China (CPC) Jilin Provincial Committee Secretary Huang Qiang at Government Headquarters on Tuesday. – Photo: GCS
