Formed on 20 December 1999 in accordance with the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration, it is headed by secretariats or commissioners and report directly to the chief executive.

As a special administrative region of China, Macau has a high degree of autonomy, in light of the "One Country, Two Systems" policy.

The affairs of the government are decided by secretariats, who are appointed by the chief executive and endorsed by the State Council of the People's Republic of China in Beijing.

[3] The principal officials of the current government are: Each secretary leads a number of bureaux (Chinese: 局 or 署; Portuguese: direcções or instituto, lit.

The Government Information Bureau (Chinese: 澳門特別行政區政府新聞局, Portuguese: Gabinete de Comunicação Social, GCS), commonly known as Macaogcs is the agency responsible for coordinating and studying the social transmission of government of the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China The departments that broadcast and provide assistance to the administrative authorities in this field are directly under the jurisdiction of the chief executive.