In a regular meeting of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) last week, Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng pledged that the local government will continue to strengthen the population’s patriotism, according to a statement by the committee on Friday.
According to the statement Ho, who chairs the committee, convened this year’s first plenary meeting of the committee earlier last week.
Ho said during the meeting that in the new national security landscape in the new era, the MSAR needs to continuously expand the strength of “Loving the Country and Loving Macau” in the population, by taking advantage of the implementation of the newly amended national security law of the MSAR as well as the good foundation that had been created previously, according to the statement.
The amended version of the national security law of the MSAR took effect on May 30.
Ho also said that Macau needs to strengthen its educational campaigns for national security and constantly improve its system of safeguarding national security, the statement said.
The statement said that during last week’s meeting, Central People’s Government Liaison Office in the MSAR Director Zheng Xincong, who is also the committee’s national security affairs advisor, praised the MSAR government for its effort in ensuring the effective implementation of the central government’s holistic approach to national security in Macau over the past year.
The central government’s holistic approach to national security put forward by President Xi Jinping lists various non-traditional threats to national security that the country is facing, in addition to the traditional ones.
According to the statement, Zheng also praised the MSAR for having enacted amendments to the national security law of the MSAR earlier this year.
Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (centre) chairs this year’s first plenary meeting of the Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) at Government Headquarters last week, which was attended by Secretary for Security Wong Sio Chak (right, next to Ho), Central People’s Government Liaison Office in the MSAR Director Zheng Xincong (left, next to Ho), and other members of the committee. – Photo: GCS
