CGTN published this video item, entitled “Doctor shares insights on HKSAR-mainland border reopening” – below is their description.
Starting from January 8, Hong Kong residents can travel to the Chinese mainland without having to quarantine on arrival, and vice versa. CGTN spoke with Dr. Kevin Chung Hang Lau, founder and medical director of Trinity Medical Centre in Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), for more insights on the border reopening between the HKSAR and mainland and the excitement it’s bringing.
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”.