and a population of about 530,000, the burgeoning economy no doubt has put human resources and infrastructure under great strain. To maintain a sustainable growth, we have to overcome the bottleneck and diversify. To enhance the capacity of our development, the Macao SAR Government has embarked on a number of infrastructural projects.
Multilateral relationships between states and regional economic blocks will play a key role in shaping the institutional rules which will affect the development of the global economy and the national economies within it, especially in multilateral institutions such as the World Trade Organisation and in international fora.