CGTN published this video item, entitled “Live: Leap into the future of Guangdong-Hong Kong cooperation” – below is their description.
Nansha District and Nansha New Area of south China’s Guangzhou City are among the first testing grounds for new models of cooperation between south China’s Guangdong Province and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Can the cooperation create emerging industries for the region? What is the future mission for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area? Join an online forum organized by the Hong Kong Coalition, Our Hong Kong Foundation and the Consultative Committee of Guangdong-Hong Kong Cooperation to find out more.
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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”.