At the same time, the SAR government announced their plan to use a portion of the tax revenue collected from gambling to fund the establishment of the Macao Association for Historical Education, along with 18 proposed projects for the association and the Macao Foundation to publish books about Macao. This action was essentially the official response to Lam's calls for more locally oriented history education.
此時，特區政府也從善如流，宣佈從每年抽取的賭稅中，撥款成立澳門歷史教育學會，並讓學會與澳門基金會提出 18 種澳門知識叢書的出版計劃，算是正式回應了林發欽「歷史教育本土化」的呼喊。