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Macao

Macao (Portuguese: Macau; English: Macao), or 濠, Ma Gang, Comb, is one of the two special administrative regions of the People's Republic of China, located on the north bank of the South China Sea and on the west side of the Pearl River Estuary, north of Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province, east It is 63 kilometers away from neighboring Hong Kong and the other two sides are adjacent to the South China Sea.

Macao consists of the Macao Peninsula, Taipa and Coloane. After 2000, the reclamation between Taipa and Coloane formed a gambling-based Cotai City: the Macao Peninsula is the core of Macau and its northeastern part. The land was connected to the mainland of China. The two Taipa and Coloane were originally separated from the island. Later, they became Cotai due to reclamation.

The door is the first and last territories of European countries in East Asia. Macao has been in the Chinese territory since the Qin Dynasty Emperor's Sanzheng Lingnan. It was leased to the Portuguese from 1557 in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty set up official government management. It was not until 1887 that Portugal signed a "China-Portugal Treaty of Good Trade" with the Qing Dynasty (after the expiration of 1928), and Macao became a Portuguese colony. In the 1980s, Portugal and the People’s Republic of China discussed the future of Macao. Subsequently, in 1987, the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration was signed. According to the statement, Portugal handed over the sovereignty of Macao to China on December 20, 1999, implementing one country, two systems. autonomy".

Macao is an independent economy. The tourism industry and the gaming industry are important industries. In particular, the opening of gambling rights after the transfer of sovereignty has developed into the "world's largest casino". Macau is the region with the highest population density in the world, with a population of more than 20,000 per square kilometer. In 2015, Macao's per capita GDP was US$78,586 at the international exchange rate, ranking third in the world. In 2015, Macao's per capita GNI was ranked third in the world at a purchasing power parity of US$102,480.