Xinhua News Agency, Macau, November 13 (Reporters Guo Xin, Wang Chenxi) The Director of the Department of Social and Cultural Affairs of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government, Ouyang Yu, stated in a joint interview with the central media on the 12th that Macao has now entered a stage of normalization of epidemic prevention and is a safe and appropriate A tourist and healthy city is ready to welcome mainland tourists and promote tourism and economic recovery.
In November, Macau successively launched a series of activities of the "Visit Macau Carnival", including two main events of the 67th Grand Prix and the 20th Food Festival, as well as themed events such as Holland Garden Parade, Winter Carnival, and Taipa Happy Party.
"Macao is entering the late autumn, the weather is good, and the air is good. The most important thing is that the goods are cheap and the hotels and shopping are very cheap. Macau is still a food paradise, and it is very suitable to visit Macau at this time." Ouyang Yu said.
Ouyang Yu emphasized that Macau will adhere to the principle and purpose of "preventing foreign imports and preventing internal rebounds" and work hard to control the epidemic.
In order to prevent the epidemic from rebounding, Macau has prepared many emergency plans, such as fusing mechanisms, shelter hospitals, zoning and hierarchical prevention and control, etc.
"The most important thing is to let mainland residents know that Macau is a safe place to travel." Ouyang Yu said.
As of November 12, Macau had no new confirmed cases of new coronary pneumonia for 228 consecutive days, and maintained zero community infections and zero medical staff infections.
Ouyang Yu introduced that since the start of the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, the state has given Macao a lot of material support.
More than 3 million masks in the first phase of Macau were purchased in the Mainland, which enabled the smooth implementation of the mask protection plan.
In addition, the mainland expert team has provided Macau with a lot of guidance, bringing the mainland's prevention and control standards to Macau, and helping Macau to effectively prevent and control the work.
Ouyang Yu said that during the epidemic prevention process, the importance of "one country" is well demonstrated.
Ouyang Yu said frankly that it is not easy to find a balance between epidemic prevention and control and economic recovery.
Only under the premise of implementing strict epidemic prevention measures can there be conditions to promote economic and tourism development. Macau is very confident in this.
Starting from September 23, the Mainland will resume the application of visas for travel to Australia.
Currently, there is no need to undergo medical isolation when entering or leaving Macau from the Mainland.
In order to enhance the confidence of mainland residents to travel to Australia, the Macao Special Administrative Region Government has held a series of promotional activities, and Beijing Macao Week is one of them.
Ouyang Yu said that Macau's tourism industry is gradually recovering and tourists are slowly increasing.
At present, about 20,000 tourists come to Macau every day, but it is still far from the peak period.
"Many people in the Mainland still don't know that they don't need to be isolated when coming to Macau. We need to pass this information out." Ouyang Yu said.
The Macau SAR government is making extensive use of various channels, especially social media, to deliver travel information to mainland residents, to promote the achievements of Macau’s epidemic prevention and control, and to restore the confidence of mainland tourists to come to Macau.
Ouyang Yu said: “We hope that every Macau resident and every mainland resident can be Macau’s tourism ambassador and pass on the information of Macau’s safety, travel and health.”