Beijing (TDI): Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday emphasized the long-term adherence to “one country, two systems” as Macao celebrates a quarter-century of transformative success since its return to the motherland.
At a televised ceremony organized in a major sports stadium in Macao, Xi swore in Sam Hou Fai, a 62-year-old former senior judge, as the 6-term chief executive of the Macao SAR.
Sam’s team of principal officials for the SAR government was also sworn in before President Xi, according to the Xinhua News Agency.
After the inauguration, Xi addressed an audience of over one thousand people in the stadium.
He said that Macao and its neighbor Hong Kong are two SARs of China governed under the “one country, two systems” rule since Beijing resumed the exercise of sovereignty over these territories following long eras of Portuguese and British rule.
The policy allows them to maintain their capitalist systems socialist China.
Xi said “one country, two systems” is a good policy that helps maintain long-term success and stability in Hong Kong and Macao, a good policy that serves the noble cause of building a stronger nation and achieving national rejuvenation, and a good policy that helps realize win-win cooperation and peaceful coexistence between different social systems.
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The values of peace, openness, inclusiveness and sharing that are embodied in the policy are shared by China and the rest of the international community, and deserve to be jointly protected, he added.
In a brief address at the airport after landing in Macao on Wednesday, Xi called the city “a pearl on the palm” of the motherland.
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During his three-day trip to Macao, Xi highly commended the city’s experience in implementing ‘one country, two systems.’
