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| Formation | 20 December 1999; 25 years ago (1999-12-20) |
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| Founding document | Macao Basic Law |
| Country | China |
| Website | www.gov.mo |
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| Legislature | Legislative Assembly |
| Speaker | President |
| Meeting place | Legislative Assembly Building |
| Executive branch | |
| Leader | Chief Executive |
| Appointed by | Premier,State Council of China |
| Headquarters | Macau Government Headquarters |
| Main organ | Executive Council |
| Judicial branch | |
| Court | Court of Final Appeal (See alsoJudiciary of Macau) |
| Seat | Superior Court of Macau Building |
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| Traditional Chinese | 澳門特別行政區政府 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 澳门特别行政区政府 | ||||||||||
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| Chinese | 澳門政府 | ||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Governo da Região Administrativa Especial de Macau | ||||||||||
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TheGovernment of the Macao Special Administrative Region, commonly known as theMacao Government, is theexecutive authorities ofMacau. Formed on 20 December 1999 in accordance with theSino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, it is headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to thechief executive. The affairs of the government are decided bysecretaries, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by theState Council of the Central People's Government inBeijing. As a special administrative region of China, Macau has a high degree of autonomy, in light of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy. The Macau Government, financially independent from the Central People's Government, oversees the affairs of Macau.
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Thechief executive is responsible for the administration of Macau. The affairs of the government are decided bysecretariats, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by theState Council of thePeople's Republic of China inBeijing. The office of chief executive replaced that ofgovernor after 1999 as head of the government inMacau. The chief executive reports to the State Council.
The current chief executive isHo Iat Seng andHoi Lai Fong is the chief of the Office of the Chief Executive.[1]
The secretaries are similar to theHong Kong Government policy bureaux secretaries. However, there are fewer secretaries in Macau, and they are considered part of the civil service instead of officials employed on contracts.[2] The current (fifth) government was inaugurated in December 2019.[3]
The principal officials of the current government are:
Each secretary leads a number of bureaux (Chinese:局 or 署;Portuguese:direcções or instituto,lit. 'directorate or institutes'), which carry out decisions and plans made by the secretaries.
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The structure of the Portuguese administration in Macau was slightly different from the current:
Localisation of key positions was non-existent prior to the handover, all department heads werePortuguese. Chinese civil service heads did not appear until after the establishment of the special administrative region. Currently, many government officials received education in mainland China; some of them even grew up in China.
The Government Information Bureau (Chinese:澳門特別行政區政府新聞局,Portuguese:Gabinete de Comunicação Social, GCS), commonly known asMacaogcs is the agency responsible for coordinating and studying the social transmission of government of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China The departments that broadcast and provide assistance to the administrative authorities in this field are directly under the jurisdiction of thechief executive.[4]
