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BEIJING, Dec. 17-- President Xi Jinping is scheduled to arrive in Macao on Wednesday for the 20th anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, is expected to attend a ceremony marking the anniversary, which falls on Dec. 20, and the inauguration of the fifth-term government of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR). He will also inspect the region. Over the years, the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping at the core has unswervingly implemented the policies of "one country, two systems," "the people of Macao governing Macao," and a high degree of autonomy for the region, and has firmly supported the exercising of law-based governance by the chief executive and government of the Macao SAR as well as integration of Macao's development into that of the country. Guided by this support, Macao has shown the world the success of "one country, two systems" with Macao characteristics. SUPPORT FOR MACAO A city with only around 30 square km of land and a 670,000-strong population, Macao nevertheless enjoys significant attention from the central authorities. In December 2017, not long after being elected general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Xi met with Macao SAR Chief Executive Chui Sai On in Beijing and expressed his full confidence in Macao's development prospects. | 
