Talents cultivation essential to Macao's sustainable development: Chief Executive

Chief Executive Chui Sai On of Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) said Thursday that education in Macao would keep pace with the times so as to cultivate more versatile talents to promote the city's sustainable development in the new phase.

While delivering a speech at a banquet marking the Teacher's Day, Chui highly praised teachers for their dedication and contributions in improving the quality of education.

Cultivation of diversified talents and accelerating the development of education were essential to the region, especially in its transformation to a world center of tourism and leisure and a commercial and trade co-operation service platform between China and the Portuguese-speaking countries, Chui said.

Teachers are the core of education, Chui noted, adding that the SAR government would enhance their career development and sense of honor through setting more favorable regulations and policies and by providing more professional training.

Chui said the SAR government would also help schools to enhance their facilities, and continuously put more resources into the long-term mechanisms of education and talents cultivation, special education, vocational education and further education, for more qualified education services. Endi