Q: You spent your childhood in Portugal, and speak fluent Portuguese. You are also an expert on the Portuguese colony of Macao, which is to revert to the PRC in 1999. In 450 years of Portuguese rule, Macao never attained economic prosperity on a par with Hong Kong's. On the basis of your many years of research, can you outline the reasons?
問：您精通葡萄牙語，童年生活在葡萄牙度過，又是研究澳門的專家，一九九九年葡萄牙殖民地澳門將歸還中共，葡萄牙統治澳門四百五十年來，卻未達類似香港的高度經濟繁榮，可否就個人多年研究心得，談一下它的原因？