Portuguese folk dancing, music and gastronomy will be part of Macau's tourism promotion campaign in northwest China from 22 to 26 August, the territory's authorities announced today.
The Macau Government Tourist Office (MGTO) said that the Macau Week in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province, will bring shows to a popular public square in Qujiang Park, a site with more than 2,200 years of history.
The shows will include folk dance groups and Portuguese music bands, "to reflect the Chinese and Portuguese cultural characteristics of Macau," the MGTO added in a statement.
The Macau Week in Xi'an will also include a food festival, from August 20 to September 1, at a hotel in the Chinese city, it added in the same statement.
Chefs from Macau will prepare a buffet with Portuguese and Macanese dishes, the MGTO said, referring to the cuisine, considered the world's first fusion cuisine, from the Eurasian community, with many Portuguese descendants and roots in the territory.
The statement recalled that regular direct flights between Xi'an and Macau will resume on 20 August, for the first time since the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As of 6 March, Xi'an residents will be able to apply for individual visas to Macau, a measure that will expand the number of cities in China covered by the programme to 51.
MGTO, the Macao Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Guangdong-Macao Intensive Cooperation Zone in Hengqin will also seek to bring together entrepreneurs from Xi'an and Macau.
The three entities will organise a business exchange session and a conference to promote events, to encourage entrepreneurs from the two cities to "explore business opportunities together", said MGTO.
For several years, the Macau Government has advocated the need to invest in the provision of financial services between China and the Portuguese-speaking bloc, in order to diversify the economy of the Chinese special administrative region, which is highly dependent on tourism.
In August 2023, Macau's Chief Executive said that the territory wants to increase from 36 to "more than 40" the number of primary schools where children can "learn Portuguese from an early age". Ho Iat Seng argued that promoting the Portuguese language is "a responsibility of the education sector". "We want to strengthen the qualifications of teachers to train bilingual staff in Chinese and Portuguese in Macau", said the government leader, recalling the region's role as a trading platform with Portuguese-speaking countries.
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