[3] Aiming to contribute to the exercise of civil and political rights and the political participation in Macau, the CDM pushes for the democratic progress in Macau, and advocates free, active, enlightened, and conscious participation of citizens in public with democratic experience.

[4] On 30 April 1974, leftists and Armed Forces Movement met in Fat Siu Lau restaurant in Macau for the first time, including lawyer Joaquim Jorge Perestrelo Neto Valente, architect José Celestino da Silva Maneiras, Damião Rodrigues and Vivaldo Rosa.

[5][6][7] It became the first meeting of the Democratic Centre of Macau (CDM), which hoped to celebrate the new political era followed by the Carnation Revolution.

They also called for removing José Manuel de Sousa e Faro Nobre de Carvalho as Governor of Macau, in opposition to the conservative and localist factions led by the Association for the Defense of Macau Interests (ADIM) which supported him to stay.

[12] However, under enormous socio-political overhaul in Macau, new civic-political groups originated in the Chinese community emerged, and the CDM had therefore declined significantly with little influence and activities.