The Chief Executive, Mr Chui Sai On, will deliver the Policy Address for the Fiscal Year 2017 on Tuesday (15 November) at the Legislative Assembly.

The session will be held at 3pm. It will be followed by a press conference at the Government Headquarters at 5pm, when Mr Chui will answer questions from the media.

The following day (16 November), from 3pm to 6pm, Mr Chui will attend a plenary meeting of the Legislative Assembly to explain his policy programme to legislators and to answer their questions.

The five policy secretaries and their subordinates will present their 2017 policy guidelines to the Legislative Assembly between the hours of 3pm and 8pm, on the following dates:

Secretary for Administration and Justice: 22-23 November;

Secretary for Economy and Finance: 24-25 November;

Secretary for Security: 28-29 November;

Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture: 1-2 December, and;

Secretary for Transport and Public Works: 5-6 December.

Teledifusão de Macau (TDM) will transmit all of the above events live on its television and radio services.

Live broadcasts can also be viewed online via the following routes: the Government Portal website of the Macao SAR (http://www.gov.mo); the website of the Chief Executive’s Office (http://www.gce.gov.mo); the website of the Legislative Assembly (http://www.al.gov.mo); and the website of the Government Information Bureau (http://www.gcs.gov.mo). Full Policy Address is also available for download on the websites of these public bodies.

Users of portable devices may watch the live sessions via GCE Macao, a mobile application issued by the Chief Executive’s Office, or through MSAR News, the mobile app of the Government Information Bureau, or via the official channel for Macao Government news on YouTube (www.youtube.com/macaogcs).

When the Chief Executive starts his presentation on Tuesday, hard copies of the full Policy Address, and pamphlets in Chinese and Portuguese summarising it, will be available at the following locations: the Government Head Office Auxiliary Bureau; the Government Information Bureau; the Public Information Centre; the headquarters of the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau; the Macao Central Library; the Macao Post and at the Government Printing Bureau.

To ensure a better understanding of the policies, the Macao Post service will deliver a copy of a pamphlet in Chinese and Portuguese, with highlights of the Policy Address, to every household in Macao.

The pamphlets will also be available to the public at other locations. They include: services centres of the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau; citizen service centres managed by the Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau; centres of the Social Welfare Bureau; libraries of the Cultural Affairs Bureau; via associations, non-governmental organisations and schools.