Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR)
Edmund Ho Hau Wah, on behalf of the people in Macao, congratulated
Thursday the motherland on the successful launch and retrieval of
Shenzhou V spaceship.
"The good tiding that came just a few days after the celebration
of China's 54th founding anniversary represented a realization of a
long-cherished dream of the nation," he said in his congratulation
letter sent to the central government, the State Council.
He said that the breakthrough made in the country's outer space
technology is of historic and strategic significance, and embodies
an incessant advance of the nation's comprehensive strengthen,
which will contribute and give a strong impetus to the efforts for
economic development, scientific advancement and the improvement of
the national security.
(Xinhua News Agency October 16, 2003)
