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The handover of Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, returned Hong Kong to Chinese rule, and it adopted the Hong Kong Basic Law. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] In the 21st century, Hong Kong has continued to enjoy success as a financial centre.
Hong Kong hosts several high tech and innovation companies, [228] including several multinational companies. [229] [230] Hong Kong is the ninth largest trading entity in exports and eighth largest in imports (2021), [231] [232] trading more goods in value than its gross domestic product.
The Viceroy of Guangdong and Guangxi, ordered four customs stations to be established in waterways surrounding Hong Kong and Kowloon at Fat Tong Chau, Ma Wan, Cheung Chau and Kowloon Walled City. It was so-called "blockade of Hong Kong" by the Hong Kong Government. [2]
From 1841 to 1997, except for a brief period of Japanese occupation during World War II between 1941 and 1945, Hong Kong was a British crown colony and, from 1981 until its handover, a dependent territory of the United Kingdom.
Streets of Hong Kong, 1865 Beaconsfield Arcade, Hong Kong, c.1890. The building on the left is the HSBC building (second design) China was the main supplier of its native tea to the British, whose annual domestic consumption reached 30,050,000 pounds (13,600,000 kg) in 1830, an average of 1.04 pounds (0.47 kg) per head of population.
Hong Kong had been a colony of the British Empire since 1842 after the First Opium War and its territory was expanded on two occasions; first in 1860 with the addition of Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters Island, and again in 1898 when Britain obtained a 99-year lease for the New Territories. The date of the handover in 1997 marked the end of ...
Hong Kong independence is the notion of Hong Kong as a sovereign state, independent from the People's Republic of China (PRC). Hong Kong is a special administrative region (SAR) of China and is thus granted a high degree of de jure autonomy, as stipulated by Article 2 of the Hong Kong Basic Law ratified under the Sino-British Joint Declaration. [2]
Vivian Kong of Team Hong Kong poses with gold medal during the Women's Epee Individual medal ceremony on day 1 of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.