The Chief Executive, Mr Ho Iat Seng, said that a trip running from 18 to 27 April, taking in visits to Portugal, Luxembourg, and Belgium, aimed to strengthen friendly ties with those countries, as well as to deepen fields for collaboration, and to explore new opportunities for cooperation.
Mr Ho was speaking on Tuesday (18 April) evening to members of the press at the Macao checkpoint of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, before leaving Macao on his journey to Europe.
Mr Ho is leading a Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR) Government delegation and a Macao entrepreneur delegation to Portugal from 18 to 22 April. The MSAR Government delegation will then go on to visit Luxembourg and Brussels in Belgium, before returning to Macao on 27 April.
Portugal is the first overseas country to be visited by members of the current-term MSAR Government. The trip fully illustrated that the MSAR Government attached great importance to friendly relations between Macao and Portugal, as well as to Macao’s undertaking to enable exchange and cooperation between China and Portugal, said Mr Ho.
During the meeting with the press, Mr Ho said his visit to Portugal was about grasping fresh opportunities, with an aim to advance Macao’s role in serving as a commercial and trade cooperation service platform between China and Portuguese-speaking countries, and to further Macao’s appropriate economic diversification.
