The purpose of the paper is to delineate the educational development in Macao. Firstly，the paper points out that joint efforts in establishing and running schools，autonomy of schools and multi-lingual teaching can be characterized as the educational heritage of Macao education. Secondly，figures regarding the average number of students per class，teacher-student ratio，average weekly teaching hours per teacher and percentages of teachers having received or receiving professional training are provided to describe that Macao SAR government has invested a great amount of resources to better the conditions of educational development. Thirdly，figures of student enrollment rate，student performance on PISA，and residents self report of their reading habits are provided as indicators to demonstrate that the outcome reveals that there is room for improvement although the achievement of educational development in Macao in recent years has been obvious. The article concludes that the main task of the government is to raise the quality of life of Macao residents by enhancing the quality of education.