Speech by Prince of Wales at Hong Kong"s Handover Ceremony 1997
President Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This important and special ceremony marks a moment of both change and continuity in Hong Kong"s history.
It marks, first of all, the restoration of Hong Kong to the People"s Republic of China, under the terms of the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, after more than 150 years of British administration.
This ceremony also celebrates continuity because, by that same treaty and the many subsequent agreements which have been made to implement its provisions, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region will have its own government, and retain its own society, its own economy and its own way of……
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