Mainland and Macau sign Seventh CEPA Supplementary agreement

China News agency, Macao, May 28 (Xinhua Longtou) The seventh supplementary Agreement between the mainland and Macau on the establishment of Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA), which was officially signed at the Macau SAR government headquarters on 28th.　　The agreement will come into effect next year.　　Under the witness of the chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, Chui, director of the Central Australian Liaison Office Bai Zhijian, and deputy director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of the State Council, the Deputy Minister of Commerce Jiang Zengwei and the economic and Financial Secretary of the HKSAR Government Tam signed the text of the Supplementary Agreement VII of CEPA. The agreement includes two aspects: trade and investment facilitation and service trade. Among them, in the service trade, this time on the basis of the original open, further relax including construction, medical, audio-visual, distribution, banking, social services, tourism, entertainment, air transport, professional and technical personnel qualification examination and the 11 services in the field of market access conditions; Also added a new technical inspection analysis and cargo inspection and professional design services 2 areas.　　The number of areas open to Macau by the mainland has increased to 43. In the area of trade and investment facilitation, the mainland and Macao will add new educational cooperation to increase cooperation in trade and investment facilitation to 10. Among them, in the field of industrial cooperation, in addition to the original Chinese medicine industry and the exhibition industry cooperation, will increase cultural, environmental protection and innovation and technology industry cooperation, and clear cooperation mechanism and cooperation content.　　The cooperation field of mice industry has also supplemented the new cooperative measures to promote the development of the exhibition industry in Macau. The new agreement stipulates that the Macao medical institutions in Shanghai, Chongqing, Guangdong, Fujian, Hainan A total of 5 provinces and cities to set up a hospital, and in Guangdong province to establish a wholly-owned, joint ventures, cooperative sanatorium.　　The 7 categories of pharmacists and nurses in Macao can also practise in the mainland for a short period of time. It has been 6 years since the signing of Cepa in 2003 and its full implementation in 2004.　　At present, the mainland has opened 43 services to Macao and opened up 261 measures. Jiang Zengwei said that Cepa provided a broad space for the common development of Macao and the mainland, and also benefited Macao and mainland residents.　　The mainland can also make use of the special relations between Macao and the Portuguese-speaking countries to develop more extensive cooperation with the Portuguese-speaking countries. Tam said that at present Zhuhai, Foshan, Chongqing, Shanghai as a model city for the implementation of CEPA, the Ministry of Commerce will open up more suitable cities as a model city of cooperation with Macao, which is more conducive to promoting and promoting CEPA, but also conducive to Macao enterprises concentrate on the demonstration city to do a good job. Finish)