Secretary for Administration and Justice Florinda da Rosa Silva Chan and her colleagues recently visited the University of Macau’s (UM) new campus. Secretary Chan noted during her visit that the new campus shows the country’s great support for Macao SAR, and she expressed her hope that UM can continue to improve its “software” to complement the world-class “hardware” that is the new campus. UM Rector Wei Zhao expressed thanks to the SAR government and the residents of Macao for their great support.

The delegation was warmly received by UM Rector Wei Zhao, Faculty of Law Dean John Shijian Mo, Shiu Pong College Master Kenneth Leung, Communications Office Director Katrina Cheong, and other UM representatives. Rector Wei Zhao told the guests about the latest developments of the university, including the “4-in-1” mode of education, which consists of discipline-specific education, general education, research and internship education, as well as community and peer education; the latest research achievements; and the master plan for the new campus. Wei Zhao thanked the Macao SAR government and the residents of Macao for their great support. In addition to the UM Wu Yee Sun Library, the University Hall, and the UM Guest House, which are the landmarks on the new campus, the delegation also visited the residential colleges where they listened to college members explain the ideas behind the residential college system and the students’ lives in the colleges.

Secretary Chan said that she was very excited to see what used to be a piece of deserted land finally transformed into the current new campus, adding that the National People’s Congress Standing Committee’s approval of the construction of UM’s new campus on Hengqin Island as well as the unprecedented decision to allow Macao SAR to exercise jurisdiction over the new campus, shows the country’s great support for Macao SAR. She further thanked UM colleagues for their hard work and expressed her hope that UM can constantly improve its “software”, which includes faculty, curriculum, and teaching quality, to complement the world-class “hardware” that is the new campus, so as to achieve the goal of becoming a world-class university.

In addition to Secretary Chan, other members of the delegation included Chief of the Office of the Secretary for Administration and Justice Cheong Chui Ling, Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau Director José Chu, Printing Bureau Director Tou Chi Man, Law Reform and International Law Bureau Director Chu Lam Lam, Legal and Judicial Training Centre Director Manuel Marcelino Escovar Trigo, Pension Fund Administrative Committee President Ieong Kim I, Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau (IACM) Administration Committee Acting President Vong Iao Lek, IACM Consultative Committee Chairman João Baptista Manuel Leão, and IACM Supervisory Committee Chairman António José Dias Azedo.

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