The election for the fifth-term chief executive of China's Macao Special Administrative Region (SAR) will be held on Aug. 25, 2019, according to an executive order published on the SAR official gazette on Monday.

The executive order signed by Macao SAR Chief Executive Chui Sai On set the date of the election on Aug. 25.

The official gazette also published another executive order which put a ceiling of campaign fund of no more than 6.44 million patacas (about 798,592 US dollars) for each candidate.

According to the Basic Law of the Macao SAR, the chief executive, with a five-year tenure for each term, shall be elected by a broadly representative election committee in accordance with the law, and be appointed by the central government.