摘要
Year 2023 marks the 10th anniversary of China’s proposal of the Belt and Road Initiative(BRI).Over the past decade,the Macao Special Administrative Region(SAR)of China has taken the initiative to align with the country’s development strategy and actively participated in the pursuit of the BRI,facilitated exchanges and cooperation with Portuguese-speaking countries,as well as countries of the BRI in the areas of economy and trade,tourism and culture.The efforts had achieved fruitful results.For example,according to Macao’s external merchandise trade statistics,in the year of 2022,merchandise import from the BRI countries has increased by 3.5%year on year and reached 26.21 billion pataca(MOP).Meanwhile,the total amount of exports to the BRI countries was MOP523 million,which also expanded by 69.8%.
