South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “In times of upheaval, Hong Kong must do more to hold on to its heritage” – below is their description.
Hong Kong is a city steeped in history, but it has an appalling record when it comes to preserving its built heritage, says the Post’s special projects editor Cliff Buddle. The city will soon say goodbye to two much-loved fixtures: the General Post Office, which will be demolished, and the colonial-style Peak Tram cars that are about to be replaced. He argues that preserving some aspects of these old Hong Kong features would provide a sense of continuity in times of uncertainty and change.
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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”.