Various sectors of the local community hosted a ceremony yesterday at the Macau Cultural Centre in Nape to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr Sun Yat-sen.
Dr Sun, also known as Sun Zhongshan or Sun Wen, is widely seen as the founder of modern China. He was born in Guangdong’s then Hsiang-shan county near Macau on November 12, 1866. The county was renamed Zhongshan in honour of Dr Sun after his death in 1925.
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On gave a speech at the event, saying that that Dr Sun had been to Macau many times when he was young.
Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On (centre), flanked by Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Wang Zhimin (right) and National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) Vice-Chairman Edmund Ho Hau Wah, sit in front of a huge portrait of Dr Sun Yat-sen at the Macau Cultural Centre during a solemn ceremony marking the republican revolutionary’s 150th birth anniversary yesterday. – Xinhua
