中葡合作澳门为先 葡萄牙人是最早从海路来到中国的欧洲人,中葡交往,亦成为中国近代外交史之发端。早在16世纪初,葡萄牙商船便抵达珠江口一带,试图与中国建立贸易关系。中葡初期的接触,因为巨大的文明差异曾产生一些冲突,但葡萄牙人最终为广东地方官员所容,半个世纪后获允在澳门居留,从事贸易活动。从此,中葡甚至中西交流,也围绕着方圆只有数里地的澳门半岛而展开。直至19世纪40年代香港开埠,澳门的角色才逐渐被取代。 As the first Portuguese to visit Portugal, Portugal was the first Europeans to come to China from the sea. Sino-Portuguese contacts also made the beginning of the diplomatic history of modern China. As early as the early 16th century, the Portuguese merchant ships arrived in the Pearl River Mouth area and tried to establish trade relations with China. The initial contacts between China and Portugal, which had caused some clashes as a result of the huge differences in civilization, were finally accepted by local officials in Guangdong. After half a century, the Portuguese were allowed to reside in Macao and engage in trade activities. Since then, even the Sino-Portuguese exchange between China and Portugal has also started around a radius of only a few miles to the Macao Peninsula. It was not until the opening of Hong Kong in the 1840s that Macao’s role was gradually replaced.