Government of Macau


The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to the Chief Executive of Macau. The affairs of the Government are decided by secretaries, who are appointed by the Chief Executive and endorsed by the State Council in Beijing. As a special administrative region of the PRC, Macau has a high degree of autonomy, in light of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy. The Macau Government, financially independent from the CPG, oversees the affairs of Macau.

Head of Government

The Chief Executive is responsible for the administration of Macau. The affairs of the Government are decided by secretariats, who are appointed by the Chief Executive and endorsed by the State Council in Beijing. The Chief Executive of Macau replaced the Governor of Macau after 1999 as head of the government in Macau. The CE reports to the State Council of the People's Republic of China.
The current Chief Executive is Ho Iat Seng and Hoi Lai Fong is the Chief of the Office of the Chief Executive.

Principal Officials

The secretaries are similar to the Hong Kong Government policy bureaux secretaries. However, there are fewer secretaries in Macau, and they are considered part of the civil service instead of officials employed on contracts. The current SAR Government inaugurated in December 2019.
The principal officials of the current government are:
Each secretary leads a number of bureaux, which carry out decisions and plans made by the secretaries.

Pre-1999 government

The structure of the Portuguese administration in Macau was slightly different from the current:
Localization of key positions was non-existent prior to the handover, all department heads were Portuguese. Chinese civil service heads did not appear until after the establishment of the MSAR. Currently, many government officials received education in Mainland China, some of them even grew up in China.