South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong by the numbers, 25 years after the handover” – below is their description.
At midnight on July 1, 1997, Britain relinquished sovereignty over its colony of Hong Kong, leading to the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong under the People’s Republic of China. Under the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the UK and China agreed that Hong Kong would operate under a principle of “one country, two systems” for a period of 50 years. Twenty-five years on, the Post looks at Hong Kong by the numbers, midway through that half-century arrangement.
Support us:
https://subscribe.scmp.com
South China Morning Post YouTube Channel
Got a comment? Leave your thoughts in the comments section, below. Please note comments are moderated before publication.
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”.