Chief Executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) Edmund Ho Hau Wah has consulted business and community leaders on issues to be prioritized in his annual policy address, governmental sources said Thursday.

Ho, poised to assume a second-term in office in December, is expected to deliver his policy address in the Legislative Council in the middle of this month.

According to the Information Bureau of the SAR government, during the closed-door meetings with dozens of business and community leaders, Ho focused on problems of traffic congestion, human resources and rebuilding of old districts, saying a rapidly developing economy brings consequences that require gradual steps to ameliorate.

Leong Vai Tac, president of the Macao Center of Development Strategy, who was among the brainpower summoned for consultation, said Ho's second administration would use its relatively abundant fiscal resources to upgrade social infrastructure.

Many experts and scholars hold that the SAR government would join the forces with local communities and private sectors in solving the priority problems.

Macao's economy has been sustaining a two-year-long double-digit growth. The heating economy has boosted the real estate atmosphere and consumption confidence. Nearly all sectors are craving for more recruitment in the city of 27.3 square kilometers.

Source: Xinhua