Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend the anniversary celebrations in Macau, where the population of 700,000 has expressed little of the Hong Kong-style dissent.
MACAU. Tourists walk with shopping bags in front of Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau on December 15, 2019. Photo by Eduardo Leal/AFP
" is like the good boy in a family," Larry So, a Hong Kong-born social scientist who taught and has retired in Macau, told AFP.Macau's skyline and economy have changed beyond recognition since four centuries of Portuguese rule ended in 1999, with glittering casinos the backbone of the city's dramatic rise.
Chong cited generous government subsidies and handouts, as well as opportunities to work on the mainland.Shotah Zhang said his family's business of selling egg tarts to tourists had boomed. Hong Kong has a bustling free press, a largely independent judiciary and an influential group of pro-democracy lawmakers.
"Macau people have been standing fast with the core value of loving our country and Macau," Li Zhanshu, the chairman of China's rubber-stamp parliament, said in a speech.Li held up Macau as a model for Hong Kong, lecturing the rebellious city to better understand its relationship with China.
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