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The first Portuguese to visit China was Jorge Álvares in 1513, during the Age of Discovery.He erected a padrão with the arms of Portugal in the port of Tamau, located on the neighboring island of Sancho (or Sanchoão) at the mouth of the Pearl River, near Macau.
The Secretary for Administration and Justice (Chinese: 行政法務司; Portuguese: Secretaria para a Administração e Justiça) is the most senior cabinet role and key departments in the Government of Macau.
Portugal lost full control over the colony afterwards, and agreed to cooperate with the Chinese Communist Party in exchange for continued administration of Macau. [55] Following the 1974 Carnation Revolution, Portugal formally relinquished Macau as an overseas province and acknowledged it as a "Chinese territory under Portuguese administration ...
The Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region, commonly known as the Macao Government, is the executive authorities of Macau.Formed on 20 December 1999 in accordance with the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, it is headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to the chief executive.
By the 17th century, Portugal had established colonial rule over Macau after gaining concessions from various Chinese governments. In 1887, Portugal and the Qing dynasty signed the Sino-Portuguese Draft Minutes and the Sino–Portuguese Treaty of Peking, in which China ceded to Portugal the right to "perpetual occupation and government of Macau"; conversely, Portugal pledged to seek China's ...
The Executive Council (Chinese: 行政會; Portuguese: Conselho Executivo) is a formal body of advisers to the Chief Executive of Macau that serves as a core policy-making organ of the Government of Macau. [1]
China's top representative in the semiautonomous gambling hub of Macau will begin advising the former Portuguese colony's government on national security matters, state news agency Xinhua reported ...
The position replaced the office of Governor of Macau, the former head of Macau as an overseas province of Portugal. Under the Basic Law of Macau , the chief executive's role is to: ...be the head of the Macau Special Administrative Region and shall represent the Region.