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The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region is the representative office of the
State Council of the People's Republic of China The State Council of the People's Republic of China, also known as the Central People's Government, is the chief administrative authority and national cabinet. It is constitutionally the highest administrative organ of the country and the e ...
in
Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...
. Under the system "
one institution with two names "One institution with two names" () is a bureaucratic arrangement in the Government of China, Chinese government wherein a government agency exists in name only, and its functions are in practice performed by another agency or a Chinese Communist ...
", the office also holds the name as the Macau Work Committee of the
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. Its counterpart body in
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is the
Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region in Beijing An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific dut ...
. It is one of the three agencies of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The other two are the
Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative Region The Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative Region is a governmental office established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China in Macau in accordance ...
and the
People's Liberation Army Macau Garrison The People's Liberation Army Macao Garrison is a garrison of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), responsible for defense duties in the Macau Special Administrative Region (SAR) since the sovereignty of Macau was transferred to China in 1999. ...
.


History

The office was established on January 18, 2000. This superseded the former branch of the
Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation: ),J. C. Wells: Longman Pronunciation Dictionary, 3rd ed., for both British and American English or New China News Agency, is the official state news agency of the People's Republic of China. It is a ...
. The office is located in Xinhua Building; located in the southern foothills of the Guia Hill. The new building opened on January 16, 2010 at Freguesia da Sé. When
Macau Macau or Macao is a special administrative regions of China, special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about people and a land area of , it is the most List of countries and dependencies by p ...
was under Portuguese administration, the People's Republic of China was unofficially represented by the Nanguang trading company.Portuguese behavior towards the political transition and the regional integration of Macau in the Pearl River Region
Moisés Silva Fernandes, in ''Macau and Its Neighbours in Transition'', Rufino Ramos, José Rocha Dinis, D.Y.Yuan, Rex Wilson, University of Macau, Macau Foundation, 1997, page 48
This later became known as China Central Enterprise Nam Kwong (Group). Established in 1949, officially to promote trade ties between Macau and mainland China, it operated as the unofficial representative and "shadow government" of the People's Republic in relation to the Portuguese administration.Macao in Sino-Portuguese Relations
Moisés Silva Fernandes, in ''Portuguese Studies Review'', Vol. 16, No. 1, 2009, page 155
It also served to challenge the rival "Special Commissariat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China" in the territory, which represented the
Kuomintang The Kuomintang (KMT) is a major political party in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It was the one party state, sole ruling party of the country Republic of China (1912-1949), during its rule from 1927 to 1949 in Mainland China until Retreat ...
government on
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. This was closed after the pro-
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12-3 incident The 12-3 incident ( zh, c=一二·三事件; ) was a series of political demonstrations and riots against Portuguese colonial rule in Macau which occurred on December 3, 1966. The incident, inspired by the Cultural Revolution in the People's R ...
in 1966, after which the Portuguese authorities agreed to ban all Kuomintang activities in Macau. Following the
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,
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redefined Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration" in 1976. However,
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did not establish diplomatic relations with Beijing until 1979. In 1984, Nam Kwong was split into political and trading arms.''Naked Tropics: Essays on Empire and Other Rogues''
Kenneth Maxwell, Psychology Press, 2003, page 280
On 21 September 1987, a Macau branch of Xinhua News Agency was established which, as in Hong Kong, became Beijing's unofficial representative, replacing Nam Kwong. On 18 January 2000, a month after the
transfer of sovereignty over Macau The handover of Macau from the Portuguese Republic to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 20 December 1999. This event ended 442 years of Portuguese rule in the former settlement, which began in 1557. Macau was settled by Por ...
, the Macau branch became the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region.


Headquarters building controversy

In 2007, local residents of Macao wrote a letter to
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complaining about construction projects around
world heritage World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...
Guia Lighthouse (Focal height 108 meters), including the headquarter of the Liaison Office (91 meters). UNESCO then issued a warning to the Macau government, which led former Chief Executive
Edmund Ho Edmund Ho Hau Wah, GML, GCM, GOIH (born 13 March 1955) is a Macau politician who served as the first Chief Executive of the Macau Special Administrative Region from 1999 to 2009. He currently serves as a Vice-Chairman of the Chinese Peopl ...
to sign a notice regulating height restrictions on buildings around the site. In 2015, the
New Macau Association The New Macau Association (AMN) is a major pro-democratic political party in the Chinese Special Administrative Region of Macau. The party was established in 1992 and the founding chairman was António Ng Kuok Cheong, who departed from the the ...
submitted a report to
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claiming that the government had failed to protect Macao's cultural heritage against threats by urban development projects. One of the main examples of the report is that the headquarter of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government, which is located on the Guia foothill and obstructs the view of the
Guia Fortress The Guia Fortress (; ) is a 17th-century colonial military fort, chapel, and lighthouse complex in São Lázaro, Macau. The complex is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Macau. The view of the fortress and the lighthous ...
(one of the
world heritage World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection under an treaty, international treaty administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...
s symbols of Macao). A year later, Roni Amelan, a spokesman from UNESCO Press service, said that UNESCO has asked China for relevant information but had yet to receive a reply. In 2016, the Macau government approved an 81-meter construction limit for the residential project, which reportedly goes against the city’s regulations on the height of buildings around world heritage site Guia Lighthouse. Professor at
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Dr. Ming K.Chan () and professor at
University of Macau The University of Macau (UM or UMAC) is a public comprehensive research university in Macau. The university campus is located in Hengqin, Hengqin Island, Zhuhai, Guangdong, on a piece of land leased to and under the jurisdiction of the Governmen ...
Dr. Eilo Yu () commented the Guia Lighthouse case indicated that the Macao government had ignored the conservation of heritage in urban planning.


Administration

* Zhou Ding * Guo Dongpo * Wang Qiren *
Bai Zhijian Bai Zhijian (; November 1948) is the current chairman of the National People's Congress Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee, and former director of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macau Macau or Macao is a spe ...
Former and present CE highlight political reform
, ''
Macau Daily Times The ''Macau Daily Times'' () is a daily English-language newspapers published in Macau, launched on 1 June 2007. Overview The paper started life among one English and several Chinese and Portuguese language newspapers. It consists of betwe ...
'', 22 March 2012
* *
Wang Zhimin Wang Zhimin (; born 8 August 1957) is a Chinese politician, a member of the 19th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and vice president of the Central Institute for Party History and Literature Research. He was the Director of the ...
* Zheng Xiaosong * Fu Ziying * Zheng Xincong


See also

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Office of the Macau Special Administrative Region in Beijing An office is a space where the employees of an organization perform administrative work in order to support and realize the various goals of the organization. The word "office" may also denote a position within an organization with specific dut ...
*
Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region The Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is the representative office of the State Council of China, Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China in Hong Kong. It is ...
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One Country, Two Systems "One country, two systems" is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau. Deng Xiaoping developed the one country, two systems ...


References


External links

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Future of historic Guia Lighthouse3D video made by an anonymous architect shows the future of Outer Harbor with several tall buildings in front of Guia Lighthouse
{{authority control Politics of Macau 2000 establishments in Macau