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The “Guangdong & Macao Branded Products Expo Centre” (YoBuy), situated on the sixth floor of the Qingmao Port Building, will open during the Lunar New Year and celebrate the first Lunar New Year following its official opening. To commemorate the occasion with residents and visitors. As January also signifies the one-month milestone since YoBuy’s opening, IPIM has arranged its public ambassador, “Pou Kong Ieng”, to join YoBuyto co-host the Lunar New Year celebration. At the event, the life-sized “Pou Kong Ieng” puppets will engage closely with the participants on-site. Both residents and visitors will have the chance to try their luck at the “Pou Kong Ieng Claw Game”, and make unique memories during the Lunar New Year.
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With the aim of adopting the “1+4” appropriate economic diversification strategy and actively promoting the development of Macao as “a base for exchange and cooperation where Chinese culture is the mainstream and diverse cultures coexist”, the Macao SAR Government’s working group and the six integrated resort enterprises are continuously promoting the revitalization of Macao’s historic districts. During the occasion of the celebration of the Lunar New Year of the Snake, an array of intriguing activities will be held at the Lai Chi Vun Shipyards, the Mount Fortress Garden, the Barra Zone around the D. Carlos I dock, the Former Iec Long Firecracker Factory, the Taipa Houses, the Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro area and the Pedestrian Zone of Rua da Felicidade, celebrating the Spring Festival with residents and tourists and creating a vigorous atmosphere in the new year.
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The digital ink generative video art installation ‘Icy Fire’, created by Lampo Leong, director of the Centre for Arts and Design of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau (UM), and doctoral student Yanxiu Zhao, has won a gold award at ‘Glow Shenzhen 2024’, a light art festival held in Shenzhen. This year’s festival featured a total of 209 light artworks from various countries and regions around the city.
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In 2024, the Commerce and Investment Promotion Institute has handled 115 temporary residency applications for "Investors, Managerial Personnel and Professionals with Special Qualifications". Among them, there were 66 renewal applications, 5 applications for residency extension to family dependent, and 44 new applications. 12 new applications were approved in 2024. For more details, please visit IPIM’s official website: https://www.ipim.gov.mo/en/services/investment-residency/news/statistics/
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that licensed motor vehicles in Macao totalled 253,182 as at end-2024, up by 0.5% year-on-year. For the whole year of 2024, cross-border vehicular traffic (9,194,986 trips), passenger ferry trips (79,599 trips) and arriving and departing commercial flights at the Macau International Airport (56,595 trips) rose by 25.8%, 17.5% and 44.4% year-on-year respectively. As at end-2024, number of mobile phone subscribers (1,448,713) and internet subscribers (774,678) showed respective growth of 5.4% and 7.4% year-on-year.
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Information from the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) indicated that external merchandise trade totalled MOP142.15 billion in 2024, down by 8.2% from MOP154.78 billion in 2023. In 2024, total value of merchandise exports rose by 1.1% year-on-year to MOP13.49 billion, of which value of re-exports (MOP12.00 billion) increased by 1.8% while value of domestic exports (MOP1.49 billion) decreased by 4.0%. Total value of merchandise imports dropped by 9.0% year-on-year to MOP128.67 billion. Merchandise trade deficit totalled MOP115.18 billion in 2024, down by MOP12.93 billion from MOP128.11 billion in 2023.
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Organised by the Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan Affairs Office of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, the Hebei Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Guizhou Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, coordinated by the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Art Development of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, and co-organised by the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao SAR, the exhibition “Shining Art - Gold and Silver Handicraft Exhibition of Hebei and Guizhou Provinces” was inaugurated on 24 January, at the Tap Seac Gallery. The opening ceremony was officiated by the Deputy Director of the Department of Publicity and Culture of the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government in the Macao SAR, Bai Bing; the Acting Vice President of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao SAR Government, Choi Kin Long; the 2^nd Class Inspector of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hebei Province, Li Wenyuan; the Member of the Leading Group of the Communist Party of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guizhou Province and the Director of the Provincial Cultural Relics Development Centre, Zhang Yong; the Deputy Director of the Center for Ethnic and Folk Literature and Art Development of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the People's Republic of China, Zhou Rui; and the Member of the Executive Committee of Teledifusão de Macau, S.A., Cheang Kong Pou.
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In order to ensure the proper operation of the information system and to further optimise the quality of library services, the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC, from the Portuguese acronym) will carry out an information system upgrade of the Public Library from 8pm on 28 January (Chinese New Year Eve) to 11:59pm on 31 January 2025 (third day of the Chinese New Year). During this period, a number of library services will be suspended or affected, including the library catalogue search system and the electronic resource service on the Public Library’s website, the mobile application “My Library”, multi-functional self-service, as well as the services provided by the Public Library in the “Macao One Account”. In addition, the circulation services of the Red Market Library and the 24-hour book drops of all branch libraries will also be temporarily suspended in the abovementioned period. The public is advised to pay attention and make arrangements in advance.
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The Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) expanded the promotion at this year’s FITUR, one of the world’s biggest international tourism trade fairs, running from January 22 until 26 in Madrid, Spain. During and beyond the event, MGTO is also launching a string of initiatives targeting the European travel trade and consumers as part of the stronger efforts in 2025 to boost visitor arrivals from long-haul markets to Macao.
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In order deepen national consciousness, patriotism and the legal awareness of local secondary students, the “One Country Two Systems” Research Centre of Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) has been holding the series of lectures on “Constitution and Basic Law on Campus” in local secondary schools for 5 consecutive years. Recently, the lecture series, with topics on the Constitution, the Macau Basic Law and the Macao National Security Law, has been held in over 30 secondary schools with audiences of about 9000, and has received great responses.
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