It was only in the mid-1980s, once the timetable for the handover of Hong Kong and Macau had been agreed, that the government began to localize the civil service in preparation for the transition to "Macau people running Macau."
澳門政府「公務員本地化」的政策一開，許多在社會上已經奮鬥多年的留台校友，從民間轉入政府，成為政府中堅份子。