South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “China leads medal tally at Tokyo Olympics; Hong Kong star fencer misses out on finals spot” – below is their description.
The first full day of action has kicked off in Tokyo and has seen China quickly make its way to the top of the Olympic Games medal tally with three gold medals and one bronze. Team Hong Kong was also out in force today, but fencing medal hope Vivian Kong missed out on a shot at the podium. The Post’s sports news editor Paul Ryding unpacks all the highlights from Day 1 in Tokyo.
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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”.