Macao and Shenzhen signed six agreements and memoranda today on food inspection, medicine surveillance, education and other areas during the Shenzhen-Macao Co-operation Meeting. Officials from Macao and Shenzhen were led by the Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, and Mayor of Shenzhen, Mr Xu Qin, respectively, who both made a speech at the start of the meeting. The Executive Deputy Mayor of Shenzhen, Mr Lu Ruifeng, and Macao's Secretary for Economy and Finance, Mr Tam Pak Yuen, briefed their counterparts on the economic and social development of the two cities in the past year, and reviewed their co-operation in trade, tourism, culture, traditional medicine, food safety, medicine inspection, among other areas. After the meeting, officials from Macao and Shenzhen signed six agreements and memoranda on frozen poultry inspection, inspection techniques, education, medicine surveillance and medicine inspection. At a press conference after the meeting, Mr Tam said that the agreements and memoranda signed were mostly associated with the daily lives of the general public. Both Mr Xu and Mr Tam said that the two governments should extend their co-operation in trade, finance, tourism, creative industry, traditional medicine and education, as well as make use of Macao's role as a trade and service platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, and promote opportunities offered in the Qianhai industrial zone. The Chief Executive and the Macao delegation visited a technology firm in Shenzhen before returning to Macao.
