South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “The story of Chow Tai Fook – from goldsmith to jewellery conglomerate” – below is their description.
The name Chow Tai Fook has become synonymous with jewellery in Hong Kong, but its roots are actually on the Chinese mainland. The company was founded in 1929 in the southern gateway city of Guangzhou by Shunde-born Chow Chi-yuen. In its early days, Chow Tai Fook operated solely as a goldsmith, before establishing its first jewellery outpost in Macau in 1938. One year later, another operation was set up in Hong Kong, planting the seeds for what would become one of the city’s largest jewellery brands.
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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”.