Macao to Run for Global 500 Roll of Honor in Environment Achievement

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Macao to Run for Global 500 Roll of Honor in Environment Achievement

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Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) is doing preparations to run for the United Nations' award of the Global 500 Roll of Honor for Environmental Achievement next year, said Vong Man Hung, president of the executive committee of the Environment Council in Macao Sunday.

If Macao would win the award, the result of which comes out on the World Environment Day on June 5 every year, the tourist city could achieve a higher international reputation and create a better living condition for its people, she said.

Vong said the council proposed ten articles of suggestions to the government on the building of "Green Community" in Macao in aneffort to run for the award.

In the suggestions, the council advised the government to provide funding support to expand urban greenery coverage, disposeof buildings that are left half-built for years, increase public exercise facilities and enforce penalties against misconduct that are harmful to urban hygiene.

Vong said that besides the necessity of domestic improvement, it is also important for Macao to wage up promotions of its environmental image to win wider acknowledgment of its achievement.

The seaside city with roughly 450 years of history boasts a blend of the cultures of East and West that is exposed in local architecture, living style, traditions and food. Macao host over 10 million tourists last year.

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