Macao Residents Living in Hengqin
During school days, a group of children regularly arrive at Hengqin Port in the morning, line up for inspection at the checkpoint and prepare to enter Macao. In the afternoon, after school lets out, they return home to Hengqin the same way they came.
The children, who are all Macao residents but live with their parents in Hengqin, are part of a cross-border schooling group. By the end of February this year, the Hengqin police station had issued 5,770 local residence permits to Macao residents, and Macao residents had purchased 11,204 pieces of property of various types in Hengqin, whose floorage totaled 830,000 square meters.
The Macao New Neighborhood, the first comprehensive housing project on the Chinese mainland especially created for Macao residents, is under construction. It is expected to provide 4,000 housing units and meet the demand of more than 10,000 Macao residents. According to Li Tengdong, deputy director of the Macao Affairs Bureau of Hengqin New District, residential buildings are to be completed simultaneously with supporting facilities, such as schools and hospitals, to meet the needs of residents. The neighborhood is a price-fixed housing project exclusively designated for Macao residents living in Hengqin. Services at supporting facilities, such as schools, clinics, community centers, and elderly care centers, will be provided by specialist agencies in Macao designated by the Macao Special Administrative Region Government.
An increasing number of Macao residents are showing interest in Hengqin. By the end of last year, more than 1,000 Macao residents had used the basic medical insurance in Hengqin. During the same year, the hospitals in Hengqin provided a total of 58,000 person-times of medical services for Macao residents.
This story is from the June 2021 edition of China Today (English).
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