1999 12 19 at 5: 00 p.m. 127 Australian governor Wei Qili held the last flag-lowering ceremony at the Macao government house, which kicked off the handover ceremony. At 4: 30 pm, witnessed by hundreds of millions of viewers, Wei Qili, the last governor of Australia, walked out of the Australian Governor's Office, where he had lived for eight years.

1999 12 19 In the middle of the night, the newly-built pavilion of the Macao Cultural Center in Xingang, Macao was brightly lit, and the handover ceremony of the Chinese and Portuguese governments in Macao was held here. At 23: 42, the handover ceremony of Macao began.

At 23: 55, the flag-raising ceremony began, and the flag-bearers of China and Portugal entered the stadium. At 23: 58, in the sound of the Portuguese national anthem, the Portuguese flag and the Macao City Hall flag began to slowly descend.

At zero o'clock, the China People's Liberation Army Military Orchestra played a magnificent and passionate National Anthem of the People's Republic of China, and National Flag of the People's Republic of China and People's Republic of China (PRC), regional flag of the macao special administrative region, Ran Ran and Ran Ran rose. After 46 seconds, the two flags rose to the top of the flagpole at the same time, hunting and flying. So far, the Chinese and Portuguese governments have completed the handover of Macao's political power.

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1999 12.20, at this world-renowned moment, at the handover ceremony between China, Portugal and Macao, the loud March of the volunteers, like the rushing water of the Yellow River, poured down thousands of miles, swearing that Macao has returned to the embrace of the motherland. The 40 members of the Military Orchestra of the People's Liberation Army were fortunate to be witnesses of this historical event and the first batch of China people to play the Chinese national anthem in Macau.

1 9991June/Sunday After the National Day ceremony, the military orchestra withdrew from the "military parade village" and devoted itself to the preparations for the handover ceremony of Macao. 165438+1At the beginning of October, the 40-member band of the military orchestra made serious, intense and orderly preparations for the pre-meeting, ceremonial and post-meeting performances of the handover ceremony in accordance with the provisions of the framework document reached by the Sino-Portuguese Joint Liaison Group.

The success of Hong Kong's return has become history, and the performance of Macao's return must be upgraded to a higher level before it can evolve. According to the program arrangement, the Chinese and Portuguese bands each played eight pieces of music before the meeting, twice as much as when Hong Kong returned to China.

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