Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng started yesterday a working visit to Fujian province, aiming to boost bilateral cooperation and explore business opportunities, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) said in a statement.
During the four-day visit, Ho will hold meetings with the leaders of the provincial committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the provincial government, the statement pointed out.
In the provincial capital Fuzhou, Ho and his delegation will visit big health, high-tech and urban planning projects. In the special economic zone (SEZ) of Xiamen, Ho and the delegation, which includes Secretary for Economy and Finance Lei Wai Nong, will attend the opening ceremony of the “Macau Week in Xiamen-Fujian”. The delegation’s entrepreneurs will attend a Fujian-Macau business matching event in Xiamen.
Macau and Fujian inked a memorandum of deepening cooperation in 2014 and in 2016 set up a mechanism to hold regular cooperation meetings within the context of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the statement underlined.
Fujianese and their local-born descendants are estimated to account for about one-fifth of Macau’s population.
Fujian has around 42 million inhabitants.
Caption: Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat Seng (front, centre), accompanied by his entourage, including Liaison Office Director Zheng Xincong (front, second from left), visiit Fuzhou's historical and cultural district of Sanfang Qixiang last night. Ho and a Macau business delegation are paying a four-day working visit to Fuzhou and Xiamen in Fujian province.
