CGTN published this video item, entitled “What’s the significance of China-Africa cooperation in a post-pandemic world?” – below is their description.
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China’s State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi is on his first trip of 2021, visiting five African countries from Monday to Saturday. It has been a tradition for Chinese foreign ministers to start their first overseas visit of the year to Africa for 31 years. What does this tradition say about China’s commitment to developing ties with African countries? What’s the significance of the relationship in a post-pandemic world?
Guests: Zhang Jianping, director, Chinese Academy of Intl. Trade and Economy; Professor Daya K. Thussu, Hong Kong Baptist University
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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”.