European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso arrived in Macao on July 17 to continue his five- day official visit to China.

Barroso, who is expected to stay here for two days, is to meet with Edmund Ho Hau Wah, chief executive of the Macao Special Administrative Region, and to visit the local community having Portuguese ancestry.

The EU chief on July 14 kicked off his China tour, which covers the country's major political and economic power houses of Beijing, Shanghai, Macao and Hong Kong.

This is Barroso's first visit to China as president of the EU Commission, the executive arm of the EU.

Source: Xinhua