Macao Chief Executive Visits ShenzhenZhang Gaoli, vice secretary of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) met Wednesday in Shenzhen with Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR).Ho is here on invitation to attend activities celebrating the 20th anniversary of the founding of Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (SEZ). During their meeting, Zhang, also Party Secretary of Shenzhen City, and Ho pledged to make good use of their respective advantages and to increase economic cooperation between Shenzhen and Macao. Ho believed that his trip would promote cooperation between the two regions. He suggested companies in Shenzhen to expand business, including re-export trade, by utilizing Macao's special condition of being a window on "one country, two systems". During his stay in Shenzhen, Ho also visited Shenzhen High-Tech Industrial Park Zone. There is also great potential for cooperation in the high-tech sector between Shenzhen and Macao, Ho noted. On August 26, 1980, the State Council, China's highest governing body, approved Shenzhen to be the country's first special economic zone. In the past two decades, great changes have taken place in this south Chinese city, which falls under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. As part of the commemorative activities, a six-meter-high bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, which bears a personal calligraphy of Chinese President Jiang Zemin for Comrade Deng Xiaoping, is erected on a local hill in Shenzhen. President Jiang Tuesday unveiled the bronze statue. |
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