CGTN published this video item, entitled “Carrie Lam: It’s legal for central govt to propose improvement for HK electoral system” – below is their description.
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-03-09/It-s-legal-for-central-govt-to-propose-improvement-for-HK-s-system-Yubdv9CS0E/index.html
Carrie Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), said on March 8 that it is entirely the prerogative and power of the central authorities to introduce changes to Hong Kong’s political system. Lam thanked the central government for stepping in to improve Hong Kong’s electoral system, saying it will bring stability and certainty that Hong Kong needs to move on.
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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”.