Dual rule For the first 300 years that Portuguese lived in Macau, they did so as tenants, while professing obedience to the Ming and Qing emperors. As Wu Zhiliang, director of the Macau Foundation, says, the Portuguese ran Macau under a "dual rule" situation.
葡萄牙人留在澳門的前三百年，是以「繳租、向明清皇帝叩頭臣服」，如同澳門基金會吳志良博士所稱的「雙重共治」型態，取得對澳門的治理權。