South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Hong Kong PLA garrison completes 24th annual troop rotation” – below is their description.
The Hong Kong garrison of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) completed its 24th rotation on August 25, 2021. The troop change is an annual move performed by PLA troops since the first batch was stationed in the city in 1997. On the night of August 24, new troops entered Hong Kong from the Lok Ma Chau border crossing before arriving at the Gun Club Hill Barracks in Kowloon, where a handover ceremony later took place. The next day, members of the PLA Navy and Air Force departed from Shenzhen and Guangzhou and completed their rotation and handover.
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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”.