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Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region
澳門特別行政區政府
澳门特别行政区政府 Governo Região Administrativa Especial de Macau
Multi-party Presidential System
	Emblem of Macau
Formation	20 December 1999; 24 years ago
Founding document	Macao Basic Law
Country	China
Website	www.gov.mo
Legislative branch
Legislature	Legislative Assembly
Speaker	President
Meeting place	Legislative Assembly Building
Executive branch
Leader	Chief Executive
Appointed by	Premier, State Council of China
Headquarters	Macau Government Headquarters
Main organ	Executive Council
Judicial branch
Court	Court of Final Appeal; (See also Judiciary of Macau)
Seat	Superior Court of Macau Building

The Government of the Macau Special Administrative Region (Chinese: 澳門特別行政區政府; Portuguese: Governo da R.A.E. de Macau; conventional short name Macau Government, 澳門政府, Governo de Macau), are headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to the chief executive. The affairs of the government are decided by secretaries, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by the State Council of the Central People's Government in Beijing. As a special administrative region of China, Macau has a high degree of autonomy, in light of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy. The Macau Government, financially independent from the Central People's Government, 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 of the People's Republic of China in Beijing. The office of chief executive replaced that of governor after 1999 as head of the government in Macau. The chief executive reports to the State Council.

The current chief executive is Ho Iat Seng and Hoi Lai Fong is the chief of the Office of the Chief Executive.^[1]

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.^[2] The current (fifth) government was inaugurated in December 2019.^[3]

The principal officials of the current government are:

Secretary for Administration and Justice - André Cheong Weng Chon
Secretary for Economy and Finance - Lei Wai Nong
Secretary for Security - Wong Sio Chak
- Commissioner General of the Unitary Police Service - Leong Man Cheong
- Director General of the Macao Customs - Vong Man Chong
Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture - Ao Ieong U
Secretary for Transport and Public Works - Raimundo Arrais do Rosário
Commissioner Against Corruption - Chan Tsz King
Commissioner of Audit - Ho Veng On

Organisation of government

Each secretary leads a number of bureaux (Chinese: 局 or 署; Portuguese: direcções or instituto, lit. 'directorate or institutes'), 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:

Localisation 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 special administrative region. Currently, many government officials received education in Mainland China, some of them even grew up in China.