Some in Macao Unsure of Future Under China
More than 40% of Macao’s 500,000 residents lack confidence in the territory’s future after 1999, when China regains control of the enclave from Portugal, a survey showed Friday.
In the first such survey in the 6-square-mile Portuguese colony on the South China coast, 507 Macao residents were interviewed in August by the Portuguese news agency LUSA with a Hong Kong research firm.
More than 40% of the colony’s overwhelmingly ethnic Chinese population are “not quite confident” in Macao’s future under Chinese rule, while 44% said they were “quite confident,” the survey showed. About 30% of the ethnic Chinese surveyed said they plan to emigrate, while roughly 60% of the non-Chinese minority said they would leave before 1999.
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