“Macau has achieved many fruitful results in building the China-Portuguese speaking countries (PSCs) trade cooperation platform, such as a PCS food exhibition center, financial services, and people-to-people exchanges,” Xu Yingzhen, secretary general of the Permanent Secretariat of the Forum Macau, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Forum Macau, or the Forum for Economic and Trade Cooperation between China and PSCs (Macau), was initiated by China in 2003, and now its members include Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal, Timor-Leste (East Timor’s official Portuguese name), São Tomé and Príncipe.
Given its language and other ties with PSCs and close economic and trade ties with the Chinese mainland, Macau is being supported by the central government to serve as a platform for business cooperation between China and the PSCs.
