免费日韩片_欧美成人精品一区二区男人小说_国产乱码一区二区三区四区_国产精品国产三级国产aⅴ入口_成人看的污污超级黄网站免费_欧美一级在线免费观看_成人午夜免费无码福利片_国产乱人伦偷精品视频色欲_aaa少妇高潮大片免费看_国产精品1234_亚洲精品国产suv一区88_中文字字幕在线中文无码_精品亚洲区_午夜九九九_国产av国片精品jk制服丝袜_色综合亚洲_亚洲成av人片无码bt种子下载_欧美色就色_精品少妇的一区二区三区四区_男人用嘴添女人下身免费视频

MACAU - On a Monday morning the gaming halls of Macau's newest casino, the Grand Lisboa, are packed as punters crowd the baccarat tables.

Most are dressed in jeans and trainers, but an abundance of luxury brand shopping bags reveal their rising spending power.

Chinese consumers and gaming liberalization have made Macau one of the fastest-growing economies globally, overtaking Las Vegas last year as the world's biggest earner of gambling revenue, according to Macau government data.

Tourism has nearly doubled since 2003 as Beijing has allowed freer travel to the former Portuguese colony, a 28-square-kilometre enclave on the mainland's southern tip, an hour's boat ride from Hong Kong.

More than 10 million mainlanders flocked here last year, half of total visitors.

While Macau's gross domestic product at US$14 billion is less than a 10th the size of that of Hong Kong, the economy has been growing at double-digit rates and should expand by another 16 percent this year and 16.5 percent in 2008, forecasts Goldman Sachs.

Such fast-paced growth, however, is creating challenges, notably a labor shortage and lagging infrastructure, analysts say.

"The biggest risk for the economy is that it doesn't relieve these constraints fast enough," said Enoch Fung, associate economist at Goldman Sachs. "It also needs to develop into industries that are complementary to gaming."

Macau is the only place in China where gambling is legal thanks to the Portuguese who legalized it in the 1850s.

Local tycoon Stanley Ho pioneered Western-style casinos after winning a monopoly concession in the 1960s but liberalization in the past few years has ended his dominance as foreign casino operators have rushed in.

1

2