This year’s annual National Security Education Exhibition, which ended on Friday, drew a total of 70,496 visits, a record high since its launch in 2018, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement on that day.
The one-month 2026 National Security Education Exhibition ran between April 16 and May 15. The exhibition, which opened from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily, was held at the Services Platform Complex for Commercial and Trade Cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking Countries (aka Forum Macao Complex), located near Macau Tower.
After its launch ceremony in the evening of April 15, this year’s exhibition opened to members of the general public the following day.
This year’s number of visits to the exhibition increased by 5,486, or 8.4 percent, from the 65,010 visits recorded in last year’s exhibition.
GCS issued a statement on Friday night summarising this year’s exhibition.
The statement also said that the dedicated website for this year’s exhibition recorded 210,740 visits until 8 p.m. on Friday when the exhibition ended, also setting a new record since the exhibition’s launch in 2018.
The dedicated website started operating on April 15 when the exhibition was launched.
April 15 marks the country’s annual National Security Education Day, which started in 2016.
April 15 this year was the country’s 11th edition of its National Security Education Day.
Macau’s National Security Education Exhibition, aiming to mark the country’s National Security Education Day, has been jointly held by the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) government and the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the MSAR annually since 2018.
This year’s exhibition, which ended on Friday, was its ninth edition since its inception.
The statement also noted that the dedicated website for this year’s exhibition (https://eesn.gov.mo) will remain operational so that online users can continue to view the information laid out by the exhibition.
The website also provides hyperlinks to the dedicated websites for all previous editions of the exhibition.
The websites are in Chinese only.
The statement also said that shortly before its end on Friday night, Secretary for Security Chan Tsz King and Yang Weiqun, a deputy director of the Liaison Office, visited the exhibition at the Forum Macao Complex where they spoke to the exhibition’s staff members.
The statement also quoted Chan as expressing his gratitude to the Liaison Office for its professional guidance and strong support for the exhibition’s organisation.
According to the statement, Chan said that this year’s record-breaking visits to the exhibition has not only represented a quantitative breakthrough but has also indicated that the awareness that “safeguarding national security is everyone’s responsibility” has become a solid consensus in Macau’s civil society.
The statement also quoted Yang as expressing the Liaison Office’s gratitude to all the respective public entities of the MSAR government for their full cooperation and support for the exhibition’s organisation.
Yang said that this year’s exhibition not only introduced various innovations in both content and presentation but also featured an excellent opening ceremony. All segments of Macau’s civil society highly praised the exhibition this year, Yang said.
According to the statement, Yang also said he believed that with everybody’s joint efforts, the organisation of Macau’s annual National Security Education Exhibition will certainly become “better and better”, while Macau’s work on safeguarding national security and social stability will certainly continue to achieve new and greater results.
This time, the statement noted, guided tours by robots were available in the exhibition for the first time. Moreover, this year’s exhibition also newly introduced guided tours with sign language interpretation.
The guided tours by robots were available in four languages: Putonghua, Cantonese, Portuguese, and English.
Secretary for Security Chan Tsz King (front, left) and Yang Weiqun (front, centre), a deputy director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in Macau, watch a show by two robots on the last day of the 2026 National Security Education Exhibition at the Forum Macao Complex on Friday. – Photo: GCS
