South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Star rider paves way for China to make equestrian history at the Tokyo Olympics” – below is their description.
In 2008, Alex Hua Tian became the first rider from mainland China to compete in an Olympic Games equestrian competition when he qualified for the eventing category in Hong Kong. He was also the only rider at those Games from China, which did not have an Olympic equestrian team at the time. He has since established himself as China’s leading eventing rider and has helped open the door for other athletes from mainland China to take up the sport. After a respectable eighth place at the 2016 Olympics in Rio and competing as an individual since then, Hua Tian will be part of the first-ever Chinese team to compete in the Olympics at this year’s Tokyo Games.
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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”.