| 中央人民政府駐澳門特別行政區聯絡辦公室 Gabinete de Ligação do Governo Central na Região Administrativa Especial de Macau | |
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| Formed | 18 January 2000 |
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| Jurisdiction | Macau |
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| Website | zlb.gov.cn(in Chinese) |
TheLiaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region is the representative office of theState Council of the People's Republic of China inMacau.
Under the system "one institution with two names", the office also holds the name as the Macau Work Committee of theCentral Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.[citation needed] Its counterpart body inmainland China is theOffice of the Macau Special Administrative Region in Beijing. It is one of the three agencies of the Central People's Government in the Macao Special Administrative Region. The other two are theOffice of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China in the Macao Special Administrative Region and thePeople's Liberation Army Macau Garrison.
The office was established on January 18, 2000. This superseded theformer branch of theXinhua News Agency. The office is located in Xinhua Building; located in the southern foothills of the Guia Hill. The new building opened on January 16, 2010, atFreguesia da Sé.[1]
WhenMacau was underPortuguese administration, the People's Republic of China was unofficially represented by the Nanguang trading company.[2] This later became known as China Central Enterprise Nam Kwong (Group).[3] 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.[4]
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 theKuomintang government onTaiwan.[4] This was closed after the pro-Communist12-3 incident in 1966, after which the Portuguese authorities agreed to ban all Kuomintang activities in Macau.[5] Following theCarnation Revolution,Portugal redefined Macau as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration" in 1976.[6] However,Lisbon did not establish diplomatic relations with Beijing until 1979.[7]
In 1984, Nam Kwong was split into political and trading arms.[8] 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.[9] On 18 January 2000, a month after thetransfer of sovereignty over Macau, the Macau branch became theLiaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macau Special Administrative Region.[10]
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In 2007, local residents of Macao wrote a letter toUNESCO complaining about construction projects aroundworld heritageGuia 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 ExecutiveEdmund Ho to sign a notice regulating height restrictions on buildings around the site.[11]
In 2015, theNew Macau Association submitted a report toUNESCO 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 theGuia Fortress (one of theworld heritages 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.[12][11]
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.[11]
Professor atStanford University Dr. Ming K.Chan (Chinese:陳明銶) and professor atUniversity of Macau Dr. Eilo Yu (Chinese:余永逸) commented the Guia Lighthouse case indicated that the Macao government had ignored the conservation of heritage in urban planning.[13]
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