South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Carrie Lam delays policy address until after Beijing talks on Hong Kong’s economic recovery” – below is their description.
Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she was delaying the annual policy address from October 14, 2020 until next month. The announcement was made just two days before the scheduled date. Lam will instead visit Shenzhen for the special economic zone’s 40th anniversary celebration, where Chinese President Xi Jinping will deliver a speech, according to state media.
Lam said the postponement was to make way for a late October meeting in Beijing to discuss proposals on Hong Kong’s economic recovery with the Chinese authorities.
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In This Story: Hong Kong
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR), is a metropolitan area and special administrative region of the People’s Republic of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta of the South China Sea. With over 7.5 million residents of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is one of the most densely populated places in the world.
Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842. The colony expanded to the Kowloon Peninsula in 1860 after the Second Opium War and was further extended when Britain obtained a 99-year lease of the New Territories in 1898. The whole territory was transferred to China in 1997. As a special administrative region, Hong Kong maintains separate governing and economic systems from that of mainland China under the principle of “one country, two systems”.