Cooperation | Taskforce charged with Zhongshan-Macau linkage

Lionel Leong

Lionel Leong

The Taskforce for the Promotion of Zhongshan-Macau Cooperation has created six working groups to coordinate specific projects for its middle- and long-term development. On 28 February, Lionel Leong, head of the taskforce and Macau’s Secretary for Economy and Finance met with his counterpart, Chen Liangxian, deputy secretary of the CPC Zhongshan Municipal Government, for their first meeting in Zhongshan.The working groups covered issues related to the Cuiheng New District, business co-operation (through measures such as the construction of a Guangdong-Macau cooperation display zone), education, tourism and culture. A “pioneer project for pleasure crafts” and the first of its kind in the country is expected to be launched later this year, allowing vessels to sail between Zhongshan and Macau. In the meeting, Leong said that this innovative cooperation model would offer more opportunities to small-and medium-sized enterprises, as well as to young people, while bringing more vitality into diversifying the local economic structures. Under the Framework Agreement on Cooperation between Guangdong and Macau, the MSAR is enhancing links with Guangzhou, Zhongshan and Zhuhai.

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