Li Li, commissioner of the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA), met with a delegation led by O Lam, secretary for social affairs and culture of the Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), in Beijing on July 24.

Both sides reviewed the implementation of the regulatory cooperation agreement on drugs, medical devices and cosmetics by the NMPA and the department of social affairs and culture of the Macao SAR government, and engaged in in-depth discussions on further supporting Macao's pharmaceutical regulation. Yang Sheng, deputy commissioner of the NMPA, also attended the meeting.

Li said that President Xi Jinping, during his inspection tour of Macao in December last year, delivered an important speech charting the course for Macao's development in the new era. The NMPA has earnestly implemented the guiding principles of Xi's speech and comprehensively promoted exchanges and cooperation between the Chinese mainland and Macao in drug regulation to support the Macao SAR in advancing moderately diverse economic development and better integrating into the overall national development.

He added that the NMPA will continue to play an active role in innovative development in the regulation of drugs and medical devices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and provide talent and technical support to Macao to improve its drug regulatory capacity.

O expressed gratitude to the NMPA for its long-term support for Macao's drug regulation. She said that the relevant departments of the Macao SAR government will thoroughly put the guiding principles of Xi's important instructions into practice, further deepen exchanges and cooperation with the Chinese mainland and continuously advance Macao's drug regulation.

Officials of the NMPA's related departments and affiliated institutions were present at the meeting.