CGTN published this video item, entitled “Patriots governing Hong Kong: What are the standards for being a patriot?” – below is their description.
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The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, will deliberate a draft decision on improving the electoral system of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), Zhang Yesui, spokesperson for the fourth annual session of the 13th NPC, said at a press conference on Thursday. The electoral system of China’s HKSAR needs improvement to keep pace with the times for the accurate implementation of “One Country, Two Systems” and the “patriots governing Hong Kong” principle, he said. So what are the standards for being a patriot? CGTN’s Cui Hui’ao spoke to Tian Feilong, associate professor at Beihang University, to find out.
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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”.