On June 18, 2009, Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei met with Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira, Chairman of the Portuguese Military Decorations Committee and last Portuguese Governor of Macau, who was invited by the Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign Affairs. Vice Foreign He extended a welcome to Chairman Vieira and introduced how the central government supported the Macau Special Administrative Region of China to expand exchanges with other parts of the world and assisted the Macau SAR in responding to the current international financial crisis. Vieira spoke highly of the successful practice of the "one country, two systems" policy in Macau. The two sides also had an in-depth exchange of views on such issues as how to enhance the role of Macau as a platform to promote the economic and trade cooperation between China and Portuguese-speaking countries and push forward bilateral relations between China and Portugal.