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DECISION OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS ON APPROVING THE REPORT OF WORKING SITUATION OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS AND ON THE PROPOSITION OF THE PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF MACAO SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION OF THE NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS FOR CLOSURE OF THE WORK

    The 13th session of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National
People's Congress has considered the Report of Working Situation of the
Preparatory Committee of Macao Special Administrative Region of the
National People's Congress and the Report of the proposition of  the
Preparatory Committee of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the
National People's Congress for closure of its work delivered by chairperson
of the Preparatory Committee of the Macao Special Administrative Region of
the National People's Congress, Gian Qicheng.  The conference has
considered that since the funding of the Preparatory Committee of the Macao
Special Administrative Region of the National People's Congress on May 5,
1998, the Preparatory Committee has done a great quantity and highly
effective work in accordance with the Basic Law of the Macao Special
Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and the relevant
stipulations of the National People's Congress and its Standing Committee,
and has satisfactorily accomplished various work for the preparation of the
establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region through making
joint efforts by the whole members.  Upon the decision of conference, the
Report of Working situation of the Preparatory Committee of the Macao
Special Administrative Region of the National People's Congress has been
approved; the proposition of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for Closure of its
Appendix: Report of the Preparatory Committee of the Macao Special
Administrative Region of the National People's Congress on the Proposition
for Closure of the Work of the Preparatory Committee The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress: Since the funding of the Preparatory Committee of the Macao Special
Administrative Region of the National People's Congress (hereinafter
refereed to "Preparatory Committee) on May 5, 1998, it has launched various
work step by step in a planned way for preparing the establishment of the
Macao Special Administrative Region in accordance with the Basic Law of the
Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and
the relevant decisions of the National People's Congress and its Standing
Committee.  The work done by the Preparatory Committee covers the following
aspects: The first is forming the establishment of the Selection Committee for
the First Government of the Macao Special Administrative Region, composed
entirely of 200 permanent residents of Macao and having broadly
representative; the second is managing the election to the candidates for
the first Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region
through the election of the Election Committee; the third is making a
decision on the establishment of the first Government Office of the Macao
Special Administrative Region and on the establishment of principal
government men; the fourth is formulating the specific method for the
Formation of the first Legislative Council of the Macao Special
Administrative Region, and affirming the transition of the members of the
Legislative Council before the establishment of the Macao Special
Administrative Region constructed through the election to the members of
the first Legislative Council of Macao Special Administrative Region,
and presiding the work of supplementary election of Election Committee
to vacancy assembly; the fifth is preparing the organization of
Legislative office of the Macao Special Administrative Region; the sixth
is proposing the suggestions about the problems, such as nationality of
the residents in Macao, the disposition to already existing laws of Macao
and the application of added national laws in the Macao Special
Administrative Region and reporting them to the National People's
Congress for decision. The conference of Chairman Committee of the Preparatory Committee
convened during the period of 11th entire conference of the Preparatory
Committee on November 19 has considered the various tasks responsible for
the preparation to the establishment of the Macao special Administrative
Region have been fundamentally finished by the Preparatory Committee.  
In view of the establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region
on December 20, the conference of Chairman Committee has considered that
following the establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region,
it shall conclude its work as soon as possible.  In this connection,
it proposes the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress shall
make a decision for the closure of its work after December 20, 1999 on the
conference held in the middle ten days of December.  Hereafter the
Preparatory Committee shall convene the last entire conference on January
10, 2000 to declare the closure of work.