This year’s annual National Security Education Exhibition, which will run between April 15 and May 15, is themed “Coordinating Development and Security, Safeguarding the New Journey of the 15th Five-Year Plan”, the Macau Government Information Bureau (GCS) says.
The Central People’s Government released the full version of the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan on March 13 after the plan’s draft outline was passed by the National People’s Congress (NPC) in Beijing on the previous day. The plan, officially known as 15th Five-Year Plan for Economic and Social Development, covers the period between 2026 and 2030.
The local government is scheduled to complete the drawing-up of Macau’s 3rd Five-Year Plan and start implementing the plan this year.
It has underlined its commitment to align Macau’s third five-year socioeconomic development plan with the nation’s 15th Five-Year Plan.
The local government is scheduled to launch a public consultation later this month to gather opinions and suggestions from Macau’s civil society concerning its drafting of Macau’s third Five-Year Plan.
Unchanged from last year, according to a GCS statement on Tuesday, the one-month National Security Education Exhibition will be 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.
April 15 marks the country’s annual National Security Education Day, which started in 2016. This time it will be the 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 will start about a fortnight later, will be its ninth edition since its inception.
Tuesday’s GCS statement said that with the aim of putting into practice the central authorities’ holistic approach to national security and consolidating the foundation of national security on the new journey in the new era, the MSAR Government and the Central People’s Government Liaison Office in the MSAR will jointly hold the National Security Education Exhibition for the ninth consecutive year.
Unchanged from last year, according to the statement, the exhibition will open between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily.
To facilitate visitors’ understanding of the exhibition’s information, the statement noted, guided tours will be available for them on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. during the exhibition’s period. The Guided tours will be available in four languages: Putonghua, Cantonese, Portuguese, and English.
The statement said that after the opening ceremony of this year’s exhibition as well as an award presentation ceremony for an essay competition and a short video contest on April 15, the exhibition will be fully open to members of the general public from 3 p.m. the following day.
This file photo shows Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai (front) looking at a school textbook on national security on display at the 2025 National Security Education Exhibition in the Forum Macao Complex on April 15 last year after addressing its opening ceremony, accompanied by Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee Vice Chairman Edmund Ho Hau Wah (left), Wong Sio Chak (right), the local government’s then secretary for security and now secretary for administration and justice, and Central People’s Government Liaison Office Director Zheng Xincong. – Photo: GCS
