South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Millions travel as National Day opens ‘golden week’, China’s first big holiday since Covid-19” – below is their description.
Flag-raising ceremonies were held in Beijing, Hong Kong and Macau on October 1, 2020, the 71st anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. This year’s National Day overlaps with the Mid-Autumn Festival, a time of family reunions which has extended the break to eight days. Coronavirus-prevention measures were eased ahead of the first major holiday in China since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, and millions of people have embarked on domestic trips.
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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”.