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International Conferences and Sporting Games in China’s Macao

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Abstract

Since the handover in December 1999, Macao, apart from being forged as a world-class resort for gambling, lottery, entertainment, and leisure, has been zealously engaged in international sports, tourism, and Portuguese-speaking communities. In this context, under the synergy between the Chinese and Special Administrative Region (SAR) governments, the city has not only celebrated an East Asian Games (EAG), a Lusophonia Games and an Asian Indoor Games (AIG), but also staged an Olympic Council of Asia (OCA) General Assembly, an Asia Pacific Economic and Co-operation (APEC) Tourism Ministerial Meeting, and five China-Lusophone Countries Economic and Commercial Co-operation Forum (CLCECCF) Ministerial Conferences. This chapter will investigate the reasons why the central and local authorities constantly support the casino city’s pursuit of the international conferences and sporting games.

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    Every permanent resident was entitled to respectively receive MOP 5000/USD 625 and MOP 6000/USD 750 in 2008 and 2009, and every non-permanent resident was entitled to respectively receive MOP 3000/USD 375 and MOP 3600/USD 450 (“Government will,” 2008, 2009).

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    The Guangdong-Macao Agreement on Sports Exchange and Co-operation was one of the eight documents signed between the Guangdong provincial and the Macao SAR governments on 4 December 2008 with the aim of deepening their all-round socioeconomic collaboration (“2008 Guangdong,” 2008).

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    Sport being included was related to Macao’s efforts. In fact, the SAR executive, after the closing of the Lusophonia Games, keenly arranged the representatives of the ACOLOP member states to meet with the Chinese officials and supported their sportsmen to take part in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, so as to intensify the athletic relations between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries (Chu, 2016, p. 1259).

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Chu, M.P. (2019). International Conferences and Sporting Games in China’s Macao. In: Politics of Mega-Events in China's Hong Kong and Macao. Politics and Development of Contemporary China. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13868-4_4

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