“Advancing Public Governance Capacity” 2011 academic conference jointly organized by Social Science Research Centre on Contemporary China, University of Macau; Macao Special Administrative Region Government Public Administration and Civil Service Bureau; Shih Hsih University of Taiwan, Macau Inter-Regional Public Administration Study Association was held on September 2, 2011. More than 60 scholars from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, and hundreds of local civil servants attended the conference. The topics discussed during the conference were sunshine government and public policy, Chinese Public Administration, Macao Public Administration, personnel management, administrative ethics, public governance, regional cooperation and other issues.