The reporter learned from the monetary authority of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government on the 23rd that in 2021, the financial reserves of the Macao Special Administrative Region adopted prudent investment management, with a total investment return of 14.74 billion yuan (Macao dollars, the same below), with an annual return of 2.3%. According to statistics, in the past five years, the average annual rate of return of the Macao SAR government's financial reserve investment was 3.5%, and the average annual inflation rate in the same period was 1.6%. By the end of 2021, the capital amount of fiscal reserves was 643.17 billion yuan, of which the basic reserve and excess reserve were 139.08 billion yuan and 504.09 billion yuan respectively. The Monetary Authority said that in 2021, the world economy entered the stage of recovery, but threatened by the epidemic, there were bottlenecks in the supply chain, causing concerns such as rising inflation, and the global financial market continued to fluctuate. Fiscal reserves adopt a prudent attitude in investment management to balance risk and return. The Monetary Authority said that looking forward to 2022, the global financial market is still full of variables. In the complex and changeable market environment, the Macao SAR government will continue to optimize the asset allocation of fiscal reserves, balance risks and returns, and make prudent arrangements to improve the medium and long-term returns of fiscal reserves in combination with the professional opinions of external international investment consulting companies. (Xinhua News Agency)