South China Morning Post published this video item, entitled “Xi starts tour of southern China to mark 40th anniversary of Shenzhen special economic zone” – below is their description.
Chinese President Xi Jinping began a visit to China’s southern province of Guangdong on October 12, 2020. The president is expected to arrive in Shenzhen on October 13 to meet leaders of key cities in the Greater Bay Area. During his tour, Xi will also attend a ceremony to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the Shenzhen special economic zone. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor delayed her 2020 policy address to join the ceremony in Shenzhen with her delegation. Lam will deliver her policy address after she holds talks with Beijing on Hong Kong’s economic recovery.
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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”.