According to the relevant approval from the State Council, the reserved space for the extension of the Macao Light Rail from the third phase of the Hengqin Port to the Hengqin Port will be officially delivered to the Macao Special Administrative Region Government for use from 00:00 on April 1, and will be under the jurisdiction of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government in accordance with its laws. At this point, the Australian port area and related extension areas of Hengqin Port have all been transferred to the jurisdiction of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government. It is reported that the Australian port area and related extension areas of Hengqin Port will be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government in three stages. The first stage will be transferred from 00:00 on March 18, 2020, and the second stage will be transferred from 00:00 on April 20, 2023 and August 1, 2023, respectively. At midnight on the 1st, the launch ceremony of the third phase of the Australian port area and related extension areas at Hengqin Port was held at the Smart Port Public Service Platform Operation Center of Hengqin Guangdong Macao Deep Cooperation Zone. Fu Yongge, Deputy Director of the Executive Committee of the Hengqin Guangdong Macao Deep Cooperation Zone, read out the relevant approvals from the State Council. Subsequently, Ye Zhen, member of the Hengqin Working Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Hengqin Office of the Guangdong Provincial Government, handed over the symbolic object of the Macao Light Rail Extension Hengqin Line project (the shield machine Aoqin 1 model of the Macao Light Rail Extension Hengqin Line project) to Lin Weihao, Director of the Public Works Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government. It is understood that the civil engineering and train system engineering of the Macau Light Rail Extension Hengqin Line project have been basically completed, and equipment debugging is currently underway. The mechanical and electrical equipment and train system linkage testing work on the Macau side has been carried out in January 2024; After the reserved space for the extension of the Macau Light Rail to the Hengqin Port is transferred to the jurisdiction of the Macau Special Administrative Region Government, in addition to facilitating the construction management of the entire project, it can also carry out linkage testing of the mechanical and electrical equipment and train systems of the entire project line, creating conditions for the opening within this year and facilitating the travel of Macau citizens and passengers. (Lai Xin She)