The Gift of Macao's Return to Guizhou

The bronze "Happy Drum" is a gift from the Guizhou Provincial People's Government to Macao.

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Macao Special Administrative Region (Macau in English and Macau in Portuguese), referred to as "Macau" for short, is the full name of the People's Republic of China (PRC) Special Administrative Region. It is located in the west of the Pearl River Estuary in the south of China, where the inland of China meets the South China Sea of China. It is adjacent to Guangdong Province, 60km away from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and145km away from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province.

The Macao Special Administrative Region consists of Macao Peninsula, Taipa Island, Luhuandao and Lu Chao, with a land area of 32.9 square kilometers. By the end of 2022, the total population was 672,800.

Macao has been the territory of China since ancient times. In the thirty-second year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1553), the Portuguese bribed local officials in Guangdong and were allowed to dock at the Macau port for trade. In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), the Portuguese entered and began to live in Macao. After the Opium War in the 20th year of Qing Daoguang (1840), Portugal took advantage of the defeat of the Qing government and successively occupied Taipa Island and Coloane Island in southern Macao.

The people of China and the government of China have always advocated a peaceful settlement of the Macao issue through negotiations at an appropriate time. During June 1986 to March 1987, the Chinese and Portuguese government delegations reached an agreement after four rounds of talks, and formally signed a joint statement on the Macao issue in Beijing on April 1987. 199965438+On February 20th, China resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Macao, and the Macao Special Administrative Region was formally established.

The Macao Special Administrative Region is a local administrative region directly under the Central People's Government and implements the capitalist system. It is an international free port, a world tourism and leisure center, one of the four largest gambling cities in the world, and one of the regions with the highest population density in the world. Its light industry, tourism, hotels and entertainment places have made Macao prosperous and become one of the developed and wealthy regions in the world. In 20021year, the regional GDP of the Macao Special Administrative Region reached 239.4 billion patacas.