CGTN published this video item, entitled “What’s next for HK? Two generations give their views” – below is their description.
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On July 1, Hong Kong celebrated not just 25 years of becoming a special administrative region of China and a global finance hub, it also stood on the cusp of another transformation in the next 25 years. With a new local administration at the helm, a new security law and a new election system, what does the future hold? “The Hub with Wang Guan” brings distinctive voices from two different generations in Hong Kong to analyze the city’s future role.
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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”.