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The changing face of Macau
Macau is a small but important
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port city on the south coast of China, just south of Guangzhou
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and about 65km from Hong Kong.
It was leased to Portugal in 1557 and officially became a Portuguese colony in 1887.
"When the Portuguese had complete rule of Macau,
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they had to negotiate with China because it is so close. All food came from China so the Portuguese always worked and co-operated with them", says Agnes Lam, director of the University of Macau's Centre for Macau Studies.
In 1987, Portugal and China signed the Sino-Portuguese
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joint declaration which said the territory would be returned to China on 20 December, 1999.