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China facts & history in brief
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Map of China
Beijing
Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative
Region, is one of the two special administrative regions of
the People's Republic of China (PRC), the other being Macau.
The territory lies on the eastern side of the Pearl River
Delta, bordering Guangdong province in the north and
facing the South China Sea in the east, west and south.
Beginning as a trading port in the 19th century, Hong
Kong has developed into a leading financial centre.
Hong Kong was a crown colony of the United Kingdom from
1842 until the transfer of its sovereignty to the
People's Republic of China in 1997.
The Sino-British Joint Declaration and the Basic Law
of Hong Kong stipulate that Hong Kong operates with a
high degree of autonomy until at least 2047,
fifty years after the transfer.
Under the policy of "one country, two systems",
the Central People's Government is responsible
for the territory's defence and foreign affairs,
while Hong Kong maintains its own legal system,
police force, monetary system, customs policy,
immigration policy, and delegates to
international organisations and events.
Hong Kong has a population of about
6.8 million, mainly Chinese.
The official languages are English
and Chinese (Mandarin now), but
mainly Cantonese spoken.
For a more information about
Beijing see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This page was retrieved and condensed from
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing)
see Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, November 2007.
All text is available under the terms of the
GNU Free Documentation License
(see
Copyrights for details).
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
This information was correct in November 2007. E. & O.E.
We found Hong Kong fascinating, so
busy, so vibrant and so much to see.
When we visited Hong Kong in 1997, it was
still a British Colony, getting ready
to return to China.
A few days before our arrival to Hong Kong,
we've seen the huge illuminated
clock in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, counting
down the seconds for Hong Kong's return.
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Hui Chin and I visited China and Hong Kong
during 2007 again.
We enjoyed our stay again.
You can click on these photos for an enlargement.
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