Government of Macau

The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (Chinese: 中華人民共和國澳門特別行政區政府; Portuguese: Governo da R.A.E. de Macau; conventional short name Macau Government, 澳門政府, Governo de Macau), are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to the chief executive. The affairs of the government are decided by secretaries, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by the State Council of the Central People's Government in Beijing. 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.

Politics and government of Macau
Basic Law
Government
Chief Executive
Ho Iat Seng
Executive Council of Macau
Principal Offices
Sec. for Administration & Justice
Sec. for Economy & Finance
Sec. for Security
Sec. for Social Affairs & Culture
Sec. for Transport & Public Works
Commission Against Corruption
Commission of Audit
Procurator General
Commissioner General of the Police Services
Director General of the Customs
Legislative Assembly
President · Vice President
Members of the Legislative Assembly
Directly elected members
Indirectly elected members
Appointed members
Political parties
Court of Final Appeal
Elections
Foreign relations
Other Macau topics

Head of government

The chief executive is responsible for the administration of Macau. The affairs of the government are decided by secretariats, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by the State Council of the Central People's Government in Beijing. The office of chief executive replaced that of governor after 1999 as head of the government in Macau. The chief executive reports to the State Council.

The current chief executive is Ho Iat Seng and Hoi Lai Fong is the chief of the Office of the Chief Executive.[1]

Principal officials

The secretaries are similar to the Hong 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:

Organisation of government

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.

Pre-1999 government

The structure of the Portuguese administration in Macau was slightly different from the current:

Localization of key positions was non-existent prior to the handover, all department heads were Portuguese. 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.

See also

References
  1. "Office of the Chief Executive". Macau SAR Governmental Portal. Office of the Chief Executive. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  2. Eli Lau (11 October 2001). "Top officials to be made accountable". The Standard. Archived from the original on 22 May 2011. Retrieved 18 July 2008.
  3. "China State Council appoints senior officials of the 5th Government of Macau". MacauHub. MacauHub. 2 December 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
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