CGTN published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong outlook: Talking to Margaret Chan” – below is their description.
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Strict #pandemic precautions mark the start of Beijing’s political season. But with new virus variants and a lack of #vaccines for all, when can we expect a conclusion to #COVID-19?
Margaret Chan, former director-general of the World Health Organization, is a straight talker. She is also now serving as a CPPCC member. As a global health advocate, she played a leading role in handling the aftermath of SARS, and then the bird flu and Ebola. She said international cooperation is the only way. Tian Wei interviewed her during this year’s Two Sessions. Their conversation started from Hong Kong where Chan spent a good part of her life.
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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”.