South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam delivers 2020 policy address” – below is their description.
Hong Kong’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, delivered her fourth policy address on November 25, 2020. Here are some of the key takeaways from her two hour and 15 minute presentation which included over 200 initiatives she proposed for the city in the coming year. Lam delayed her address by more than a month, after she said she needed more time to secure policy concessions from the Chinese central government.
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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”.