(Approved at the 13th Session of the Standing¹ Committee of National People's Congress on December 25, 1999)
颁布日期：19991225 　实施日期：20000110 　颁布单位：全国人大常委会

　　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 Administrative² 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 accomplished³ various work for the preparation of the establishment of the Macao Special Administrative Region through making joint⁴ 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 Work has been approved.

　　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 refereed⁵ 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 entirely⁶ 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 formulating⁷ the specific method for the Formation of the first Legislative⁸ 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 supplementary⁹ election of Election Committee to vacancy¹⁰ 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 disposition¹¹ 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 convened¹³ 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 convene¹² the last entire conference on January 10, 2000 to declare the closure of work.