Briefs | Chief cooperation

Macau is seeking further cooperation with cities in the Yangtze River Delta regarding the training of researchers in scientific fields, said the Chief Executive during the second day of his visit to Jiangsu Province. Such cooperation would help advance the region’s economic competitiveness, Chui Sai On stated. Cooperating with Changzhou Prefecture would help Macau materialize its vision for moderate economic diversification. “The two places had complementary strengths,” Chui noted during his meeting yesterday with the Secretary of the Changzhou Municipal Committee of the CPC, Yan Li.

Jiangsu and Macau civil servants reciprocal visit program

Local civil servants are to visit Jiangsu next year, following a bilateral governmental program recently signed between Macau and Jiangsu. The local government has signed the first civil servants’ visiting program with the Jiangsu province. Kou Peng Kuan, director of the Public Administration and Civil Service, revealed that the government will select 10 to 20 early-career staff from the civil service team to visit Jiangsu. The first experimental trip will be conducted within the social work department, according to Kou.

Portuguese-speaking countries’ food product center opens today

The Portuguese-speaking Countries Food Products Exhibition Center opens today. Exhibitors hope that the center will be a way into the Mainland Chinese market, the Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) revealed. The institute presided by Jackson Chang also stated that “food,” as a basic element in life, is always a good way to start developing a business relationship and create other opportunities. This new center will be located in the Tap Seac Glass House, with the intention of showcasing a wide variety of products from the most common wines, olive oils and canned food to increasingly popular baby food.

Austrian art until Sunday

The exhibition “One Century of Austrian Art 1860-1960” hosted by the Museum of Art (MAM) will be coming to an end this Sunday. Featuring 89 masterpieces by pivotal Austrian artists of the 19th and 20th centuries, the exhibition depicts a hundred years of the most stunning progress of Austrian paintings, which enables viewers to appreciate iconic works by big names in the history of European art. A trilingual exhibition guide App is available free of charge. The evolution of the Art Nouveau movement highly popularized across Europe and North America at the end of the 19th century is considered the most influential large-scale artistic revolution after the Renaissance. The Vienna Secession is one the most important streams of the movement, which has engraved a fascinating chapter in the art history of the period. The exhibition entirely focuses on this eventful century.