(ZHANG JINJIA)

Election workers count ballots at a polling station in Macao on June 29.

All the 400 members of the Election Committee for the Fourth-Term Chief Executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) were selected that day.

According to the Basic Law of the Macao SAR, the chief executive shall be elected by a broadly representative election committee in accordance with the law and appointed by China's Central Government.

The tenure of Macao's current third-term chief executive ends on December 19.