Thoughtful arrangement

Yesterday, President Hu Jintao was in Macao to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its return to the motherland.

He also oversaw the transfer of power from the outgoing Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah to the Chief Executive-elect Fernando Chui Sai On and the beginning of the new term of the local government.

In 1999, the whole nation erupted in celebration when the city - the first and last European colony in China - was returned according to the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration and the Basic Law of Macao.