China News Service, Beijing, March 7 (Zeng Yue) "Technological innovation will allow the world to see more possibilities in Macao." During the National Two Sessions, Cui Shiping, deputy to the National People's Congress of Macao and president of the Macao Science and Technology Association, was in Beijing In an exclusive interview with a reporter from China News Service, he expressed the hope that Macao can take advantage of the country's high-quality development and develop into a "beautiful star" in the science and technology landscape.
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the release of the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area". It is also the year for the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-depth Cooperation Zone to achieve its first-stage development goals. It is also the year to implement the "Macao Special Administrative Region Economic Moderate Diversification Development Plan (2024-2028)" 》The opening year of.
Passengers take photos outside the new travel inspection building at Hengqin Port in Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province.
(File photo) Photo by China News Service reporter Chen Jimin
Cui Shiping described the "1+4" moderately diversified economic development strategy as "not putting all eggs in one basket, but different baskets are interrelated."
In his view, technology, as an important starting point for the moderately diversified development of Macao's economy, can be integrated with Macao's role positioning and advantageous resources in the Greater Bay Area to form a superimposed effect and accelerate the formation of new productive forces.
Specifically, Cui Shiping suggested that Macao should be turned into an experience center for China’s smart technology research and development achievements and become a window for telling the “Chinese science and technology story”.
“Technological experience will double Macao’s value and appeal as a world center of tourism and leisure,” he said. “This will bring a completely different experience to tourists from around the world.”
At the same time, Cui Shiping proposed to build Macao into a digital creativity-led product, service and intellectual property trading platform.
On November 7, 2023, the 6th China International Import Expo was held at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai). The Macao booth in the food and agricultural products exhibition area attracted visitors.
Photo by China News Service reporter Yang Kejia
He further introduced that Macau has four national key laboratories. For example, the National Key Laboratory of Lunar and Planetary Sciences established at the Macau University of Science and Technology has participated in the national lunar exploration project and Mars exploration and other related work, while the Simulation and Planetary Science Laboratory located at the University of Macau The State Key Laboratory of Mixed-Signal VLSI has also produced a number of scientific research that has won world-class awards and is transforming the results.
Chui Shiping also pointed out that Macao’s scientific and technological development is unique and can contribute far more to the overall development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and the country than just scientific and technological research. It also has broad potential in the transformation, testing, display, and trading of scientific and technological achievements. .
As the chairman of the Macau Chinese Cultural Exchange Association, Cui Shiping also pays attention to the combination of science and technology and culture, and proposes to build a demonstration base in Macao that deeply integrates modern science and technology with history and culture.
In 2005, the "Historic Center of Macao" was included in the "World Cultural Heritage List" and became China's 31st world heritage site.
Chui Shiping pointed out that scientific and technological means should be used to revitalize Macao's rich urban culture and human landscape resources, create more vivid and tangible artistic expressions for China's excellent traditional culture, polish the business card of "Cultural Macao", and give full play to Macao's role as China and China. The advantages of the commercial and trade cooperation service platform for Portuguese-speaking countries are disseminated to the outside world.
In 2023, China launched the selection of the fourth batch of preliminary astronauts and selected payload experts for the first time in Hong Kong and Macao. Several candidates from Hong Kong and Macao entered the final stage of the selection of payload experts.
Cui Shiping said that he looked forward to hearing more good news and hoped that Macao could contribute more to the overall development of the country in the future.
"Macao may not have a first-mover advantage, but it can catch up from behind." He said that Macao has broad space for development. "The bigger the stage the country gives to Macao, the greater the pace Macao will take." (End)