CGTN published this video item, entitled “Unboxing China: Hong Kong to be more globalized, and here’s how” – below is their description.
July 1, 2022 marked the 25th anniversary of Hong Kong’s return to China. For the past 25 years, Hong Kong has been well placed to play the roles of free port, global financial center, gateway to the Chinese mainland and many more. Looking ahead, how will Hong Kong further expand its global reach and better integrate into the country’s national development? In this episode of Unboxing China, CGTN’s Liu Xiaoxian unboxes Hong Kong’s “role cards” in the new era.
For more:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-07-03/Unboxing-China-Hong-Kong-to-be-more-globalized-and-here-s-how-1bmPjnPTewM/index.html
00:00 Intro
00:07 HK’s roles
00:43 What is BRI
01:02 HK’s position in BRI
02:01 HK’s new “buff”
02:26 What it means for HK
03:23 HK in a bigger picture
04:02 Outro
CGTN YouTube Channel
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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”.