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The handover of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China was at midnight on 1 July 1997. This event ended 156 years of British rule in the former colony, which began in 1841. Hong Kong was established as a special administrative region of China (SAR) for 50 years, maintaining its own economic and governing systems ...
The handover ceremony of Hong Kong in 1997 officially marked the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the People's Republic of China. It was an internationally televised event with the ceremony commencing on the night of 30 June 1997 and finishing on the morning of 1 July 1997.
Hong Kong 1 July march in 2011. On 1 July of each year since the 1997 handover, a march is led by the Civil Human Rights Front.It has become the annual platform for demanding universal suffrage, calling for observance and preservation civil liberties such as free speech, venting dissatisfaction with the Hong Kong Government or the Chief Executive, rallying against actions of the Pro-Beijing camp.
In 1942, the Republic of China repealed the "unequal treaties" and began negotiations with the United Kingdom on the establishment of a new, fairer treaty. The highest authority in China, the Chairman of the Military Affairs Commission of the National Government, Chiang Kai-Shek, attempted to put the issue of Hong Kong onto the two parties' agenda, suggesting that the Kowloon concession should ...
The Mainland Travel Permit for Hong Kong and Macao Residents, [ 2] also colloquially referred to as a Home Return Permit[ 3] or Home Visit Permit, [ 4] is a travel document to Mainland China issued to permanent residents of or Chinese nationals who settled in Hong Kong and Macau. The permit is issued by the Exit and Entry Administration of the ...
Chow, who was sentenced to 10 months in prison in 2020 for taking part in Hong Kong’s mass anti-government protests the previous year, was bailed by police in a separate case upon her release in ...
v. t. e. " One country, two systems " is a constitutional principle of the People's Republic of China (PRC) describing the governance of the special administrative regions of Hong Kong and Macau . Deng Xiaoping developed the one country, two systems concept. This constitutional principle was formulated in the early 1980s during negotiations ...
Minnie Chan, a senior reporter covering security matters at the newspaper, travelled from Hong Kong to Beijing to report on a Chinese defence forum on Oct. 29-31, according to two sources close to ...