73rd Macau Grand Prix Runs November 19 to 22 as Auto Show and City Culture Festival Open November 14; Macao GDP Revised to MOP316.22 Billion for First Three Quarters
The daily newsletter of the Government Information Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region on November 13 reported that the 73rd Macau Grand Prix will be held from November 19 to 22 on the Guia Circuit, with its Auto Show and the first Macao City Culture Festival opening on November 14, while the Statistics and Census Service (DSEC) released detailed results showing Macao's gross domestic product for the first three quarters of 2026 was revised to MOP316.22 billion, up 2.9 percent year-on-year in real terms. Earlier, Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai attended a commemoration of Dr Sun Yat-sen and said Macao should honour his memory and carry forward the tradition of loving the country and Macao.
The Grand Prix programme features seven races: the Macau Grand Prix, FIA Formula Regional World Cup; the Macau GT Cup, FIA GT World Cup; the Macau Guia Race, Kumho FIA TCR World Tour Event of Macau; the Macau Formula 4 Race, FIA F4 World Cup; the 58th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix; the Greater Bay Area GT Cup (GT4); and the Macau Roadsport Challenge. The opening ceremony and Auto Show will take place at Tap Seac Square at 3pm on November 14, with the Auto Show running on November 14 and 15 for a close-up look at the racing vehicles, and Grand Prix-themed activities with large-screen broadcasts are also scheduled around Anim'Arte NAM VAN on November 13 to 15 and 20 to 22.
Held alongside the Grand Prix from November 14 to 22, the Macao City Culture Festival uses innovative cultural interactions and experiences to promote Macao's World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage resources, highlight the city's character as a meeting point of Chinese and Western civilisations, and foster the integrated development of culture and sports. The Centre of Preservation and Transmission for Cultural Heritage of the Palace Museum in Macao also held a thematic lecture on the preservation of historic cities, and the Tourism Development Committee convened its first plenary meeting of 2026.
On economic data, DSEC's detailed results put Macao's GDP for the first three quarters at a revised MOP316.22 billion, growing 2.9 percent year-on-year in real terms and corresponding to 89.9 percent of the level in the same period of 2019, with exports of services rising 3.5 percent on the back of rising visitor arrivals and a succession of large-scale themed events. In the third quarter alone, revised GDP expanded by 0.1 percent year-on-year in real terms to MOP106.05 billion, returning to 91.4 percent of the same quarter of 2019, while exports of gaming services decreased by 4.7 percent. The bureau also released MICE statistics for the first three quarters, rental statistics for the third quarter, foreign exchange reserves and the nominal effective exchange rate index for the Macao pataca for October 2026, mobile payment and payment card statistics for the third quarter, and mortgage loan statistics for September.
In education and community news, Liu Yuting, a student in the Department of Communication at the University of Macau, won an award at the Campus News Awards; the Shenzhen-Macao Tourism Education Collaboration Centre organised a study tour on smart technologies for students of the Macao University of Tourism; and the free sports ground in Avenida Panoramica do Lago Sai Van will reopen on Friday after renovation works by the Municipal Affairs Bureau. Earlier, Chief Executive Sam Hou Fai attended the opening of a commemoration of Dr Sun Yat-sen and said that honouring the memory of Dr Sun means carrying forward the tradition of loving the country and Macao.
(Source: Government Information Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region)
Source: Government Information Bureau of the Macao Special Administrative Region
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Photo: 图：澳门南湾湖。Diego Delso 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Sai Van Lake, Macao. By Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
