China's Guangdong Province and Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) signed a framework agreement on cooperation Sunday in Beijing.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping, also member of the Standing Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Political Bureau attended the signing ceremony held at the Great Hall of the People.

Guangdong Governor Huang Huahua and Macao SAR Chief Executive Chui Sai On, signed the document on behalf of their respective governments.

The agreement, consisting of eight chapters and 38 clauses, sets the orientations, principles and targets regarding a wide range of issues in economic, social, welfare and cultural fields.

Under the framework, the two areas will work together to develop the Hengqin Island and the Guangdong-Macao Cooperative Industrial Garden.

The two sides will also cooperate in developing local industries, building infrastructural facilities, providing public services and regional development planing.

In their addresses at the signing ceremony, both Huang and Chui hailed the signing of the historical agreement and pledged to fully implement the document.

Also present at the signing ceremony were State Councilor Liu Yandong, Guangdong Party Chief Wang Yang, and vice chairpersons of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Liao Hui and Edmund Ho Hau Wah.