CGTN published this video item, entitled “HK, Macao residents hail Xi’s speech at HKSAR anniversary celebration meeting” – below is their description.
In the wake of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s speech at the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) anniversary celebration, voices of support were heard in Hong Kong and Macao.
People from the HKSAR and the Macao Special Administrative Region reacted positively to President Xi’s words, saying that the speech gave people from all walks of life in the Hong Kong and Macao confidence in the future.
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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”.