The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Macau Garrison has scheduled its annual Open Day at its Taipa base for May 1–2.
As in previous years, the event will run between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Details of this year’s Open Day were announced in a joint statement by the PLA’s Macau Garrison and the Macau Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau (SAFP) yesterday. The statement was released through the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS).
As in previous years, the 2026 Open Day is restricted to Macau residents.
Yesterday’s statement confirmed 2,600 places are available for each of the two days.
Hopeful visitors must register via the Macao One Account app, with tickets allocated by random draw as last year.
The SAFP is the public entity tasked with developing the Macao One Account app and maintaining its operations.
Before last year, admission tickets were distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
According to yesterday’s statement, the registration period on the Macao One Account app will run between 10 a.m. this Friday and 11:59 p.m. next Thursday.
Each Macao One Account user may register for up to three people. Draw results will be released via the app at 10 a.m. next Friday, with successful applicants notified by SMS.
To enter the barracks, successful applicants must present their ID cards and the draw results via the Macao One Account app, the statement said.
Children aged six or under do not need to register if accompanied by an adult ticket holder, the statement added.
A national flag-raising ceremony will begin at 10 a.m. on both days. Ticket holders may enter the barracks from 9 a.m. and must be seated by 9:50 a.m., the statement said.
The local barracks has opened to the public 20 times since the PLA was deployed to Macau on December 20, 1999, concurrent with the establishment of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) that marked Macau’s return to the motherland and the end of Portugal’s temporary administration of the city.
Residents attend an Open Day event at the barracks of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Macau Garrison in Taipa on May 1 last year. – Photo: Xinhua
