Chief Executive Fernando Chui Sai On promised in his New Year address on Saturday that Macau will follow the guidelines laid out by President Xi Jinping and fine-tune Macau’s role as “a centre and a platform” with the central government’s Belt & Road Initiative.
The local government’s “centre and platform” concept refers to Macau’s role as a world tourism and leisure centre and a platform for economic and trade co-operation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries.
The Belt & Road Initiative refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, a development strategy launched by the central government with the intention of promoting economic co-operation among countries along the proposed Belt and Road routes connecting Asia, Africa and Europe.
