How Macao makes it under 'One Country, Two Systems' (Part 1)

Standing at the Lotus Square in China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR), a sculpture with a height of 6 meters and a weight of 6.5 tonnes, namely the "Lotus Flower In Full Bloom," holds great significance.

Sent by China's central government to Macao, the sculpture was completed on December 20, 1999, the day Macao returned to the motherland.

To date, it has stood majestically for 25 years, witnessing Macao's successful practice of "One Country, Two Systems" – a fundamental national policy formulated and improved by Chinese leaders to resolve sovereignty-related questions from the nation's complicated past.

Once a small township with a sluggish economy and a lack of social security, Macao has emerged as a safe, prosperous metropolis with international acclaim in merely a quarter century.