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Hong Kong and Macao Sudden Search
In less than two months, it is the anniversary of Macau's 20th anniversary of returning to China. A series of celebrations are being held in the local area to present a joyful atmosphere.In contrast, Hong Kong, across the sea, has not calmed down for more than four months.The same implementation of Hong Kong and Macau, which also implements a country, and two systems, has become the object of recent discussions and comparisons.
Huang Liuquan, deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macau Office of the State Council of Hong Kong and Macao affairs, attended a event in Beijing last week. He highly evaluated Macau, saying that one country, two systems and two systems in Australia created many experiences and practices of Macau, which can provide some reference for Hong Kong.
It is true that after many data can be clearly seen that after the return of Macau, it has indeed achieved considerable attention in economic development.For example, in terms of GDP, Macau was only 49.2 billion yuan (S $ 8.3 billion) in 1999, but it has increased by nearly eight times to 440.3 billion yuan last year.Nearly five times, ranking second in the world.This series of beautiful data naturally made Beijing officials have a confidence when talking about Macau.
Having said that, Hong Kong and Macau are the same administrative regions, and the district conditions are different.Comparing Hong Kong and Macao's achievements in the practice of one country, one country, and two systems, it is not fair to Hong Kong. It is even more unreasonable to learn from Hong Kong to fully learn from and even copy the success model of Macau.
For most Macau people, the Portuguese has governance of Macau for more than 400 years. They have a strong sense of recognition of China and welcome to return to China, which is different from Hong Kong.After all, the British have had good governance after all, and Hong Kong people do not expect much change, which undoubtedly increases the difficulty of governing Hong Kong in Beijing.Once the political and economic atmosphere is deteriorated, some Hong Kong people often remember the rule of the British in the past, and even play the banner of the Hong Kong and British period.
In addition, Macau has always been a small gambling city in Asia, and rarely attracted foreign attention. It was not until recent years that it has become an international metropolis. In contrast, Hong Kong has always been an international metropolis.It is not surprising.Faced with the tangible invisible intervention of external forces, China ’s practice in the practice of one country and two systems in Hong Kong is also 100 times more than Macau.
Therefore, from a different perspective, if it is necessary to compare the production of the two countries, one country, one country, and one country, it should be provided to provide a certain reference for the Macau government's administration in recent years.This is even more urgent.
For example, from 2010, Macau, like Hong Kong, has also emerged as a local trend.Some young people who were born in Macau in Macau, although the Macau economy took off, has been oppressed by the local living environment, so it began to have disgusting mainland China, and instead emphasized the identity and local consciousness of the Macau people.
There are two examples that can be explained: First, at the 2015 Macau mourning June 4th Evening Conference, the organizer of the Macau Public Federation avoided the first quarter of the Chinese dream.The Macau Public Federation will do so, obviously because the local consciousness of young people in Macau has become increasingly rising, so they have to follow public opinion.
Second, since Hong Kong's occupation in 2014, the term Greater China has gradually been marginalized in society, and politicians have expressed their support for local issues.This local wind also blown to Macau in Macau, and Wu Guochang, a traditional democratic Legislative Council member with the concept of Greater China, once also incorporated local labels such as city -state into its claims.
If you analyze it carefully, it is not difficult to see that localism rises in Macau. Its background is actually quite similar to Hong Kong, and it is also affected by freedom.A large number of mainland gamblers exploded Macau, which made the locals feel that the living space was compressed. As a result, they couldn't help but roar and asked to defend everything in the country.
Of course, Macau's economy relies on the gaming industry. Gambler's income accounts for 70 % of the GDP. Macau cannot be unable to exclude Luke. Therefore, Macau's local consciousness is mainly manifested as a sense of self -protection at the economic and cultural level.
At the economy level, the Macau people advocate restricting the import of foreign workers, opposing foreign workers and local people with equal pay for the local people; at the cultural level, they focus on the protection of Macau's unique culture and history, but they have not put forward political excessive claims.After the Macau government has sprinkled money welfare in recent years, the once -hot local trend of thought has also sank.
However, if the social contradictions in Macau gradually become sharp again and populist look up, maybe one day, there will really be the claims of the Macau people who are out of China.With the lesson of Hong Kong, the Beijing authorities should not take it lightly while evaluating Macau highly.
