(Xinhua)
Updated: 2007-12-20 14:49

MACAO -- Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR), pledged here on Thursday to enhance administrative transparency and to encourage public participation in administration.

Ho made the remarks while addressing the cocktail reception marking the eighth anniversary of the establishment of the MSAR.

The chief executive said Macao has been progressing in a sustainable developing cause with the support from the central government and all local residents since it returned to the motherland in 1999.

All walks of social life in Macao have been participating "actively" in the public affairs and their participation has helped boost the promotion of the governmental administration, said the official.

He said the government is to fulfill its pledge to improve the communication between the administration and the public, in a bid to increase the public confidence in the government.

The MSAR government will spare no effort to build a clean and fair society with the support from the central government and all local residents, Ho said.

Officials of the MSAR government and the Macao-based offices of the central government as well as hundreds of people from all walks of the social life attended the cocktail reception.