Macau Yearbook 2013 - Macao Yearbook

Macao Yearbook 2013Zone aims to enhance development of industries, and serves as a hub for logistics, transhipmentsand exhibitions.In March 2011, the Framework Agreement on Cooperation Between Guangdong and Macaowas signed in Beijing, representing a new milestone in the history of cooperation between the twoplaces. The agreement has eight chapters and 38 articles, encompassing all areas of economic,social and cultural cooperation as well as cooperation in people’s livelihoods. It serves to definethe approach, principles and objectives of Guangdong-Macao cooperation, and covers majorcooperative projects including joint development of Hengqin Island, synchronised developmentof industries, infrastructure and customs clearance facilitation, community public services andregional cooperation planning.The Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Joint Conference was held on 19 April 2011 in Zhuhai,Guangdong. The conference was followed by the signing of the Plan for the Implementationof the Guangdong-Macao Cooperation Framework Agreement, and the Agreement onGuangzhou and Macao Jointly Promoting the First Trial Implementation of CEPA in the NanshaIntegration Demonstration Area, and the Agreement on Zhuhai and Macao GovernmentsJointly Developing the Guangdong and Macao Traditional Chinese Medical Science andTechnology Industrial Park.On 19 April, an official launch ceremony was held for the Guangdong and Macao TraditionalChinese Medical Science and Technology Industrial Park in Hengqin, as part of the main agendaof the Joint Conference on Guangdong-Macao Cooperation. This signified the first Guangdong-Macao construction project to be officially launched since the signing of the FrameworkAgreement on Cooperation Between Guangdong and Macao. The Industrial Park, covering 0.5square kilometres, has been developed with the aim of becoming the base and an internationaltrading platform that integrates Chinese medicine and pharmacy, technology, convention andexhibition, and logistics.In January 2012, the Macao Guangzhou Famous Products Fair was held in Guangzhou for thefirst time. During the same period, the 2012 Guangzhou-Macao Trade Promotion Organisationsand Business Associations Meeting cum Industry Exchange and Cooperation Conference was alsoheld in Guangzhou.On 4 December 2012, three documents were signed at the Guangzhou-Macao Cooperation TaskForce meeting held in Macao. Agreements were made in the areas of convention and exhibition,cultural development and food supplies of the two cities.In 2012, Department of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of Guangdong Provinceand the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute co-organised the following trade andeconomic promotion activities:In June, the China-Portugal Enterprises Business Investment Forum and 2012 Guangdong-Macao-Portugal Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion Seminar and the 2012 Guangdong-Macao-Italy Economic and Trade Cooperation Promotion Seminar were held in Lisbon and Romerespectively.In the same month, the two organisations joined the Fourth Cape Verde Tourism Fair and theEntrepreneurs Meeting for Commercial and Economic Cooperation between China and Portuguese-166