Receipts and Expenditure of establishments engaged in industrial related activities amounted to MOP10.39 billion and MOP7.54 billion respectively in 2021, up by 11.8% and 7.8% year-on-year. Data from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) shows that Gross Surplus grew by 24.0% year-on-year to MOP2.85 billion; Gross Value Added that measures the sectoral contribution to the economy went up by 6.8% to MOP4.93 billion. Gross Fixed Capital Formation also rose by 43.1% to MOP1.62 billion. However, major indicators showed decreases when compared to the pre-pandemic levels in 2019; among which, Receipts and Expenditure fell by 9.8% and 11.6% respectively, while Gross Surplus and Gross Value Added reduced by 4.6% and 7.1%.
UM research team develops magnetised e-skin
A research team at the University of Macau (UM) has designed a self-powered and multifunctional electronic skin (e-skin) that can not only mimic human skin in terms of tactile perception, but is also capable of quantitative recognition of 3D surface information. Led by Zhou Bingpu, an associate professor at the UM’s Institute of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering (IAPME), the research results have been published in Advanced Functional Materials, a leading international journal in the field. With its high-capacity communication capability, the e-skin is expected to be applied in various scenarios, such as real-time health monitoring, recognition and reconstruction of micro-scaled topography, and underwater communication.
