CGTN published this video item, entitled “GBA Initiative driving HK forward with unprecedented momentum” – below is their description.
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https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-07-01/GBA-Initiative-driving-HK-forward-with-unprecedented-momentum-1bjiB4Bjqtq/index.html
On July 1, 2017, the Greater Bay Area Initiative was signed to promote the economic integration of #HongKong and Macao with nine cities in Guangdong Province. The goal is a strategically unified southern #China that enables the accelerated flow of people, capital, goods and services, and deepens the “One Country, Two Systems” format that joins Hong Kong and Macao with the mainland. Ties between the mainland and Hong Kong have never been as close as they are today.
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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”.