Hong Kong is an excellent deep-water port, once known as one of the three natural seaports in the world. In the early years, the British took a fancy to Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, which had the potential to become an excellent port in East Asia, and spared no effort to win it over from the Manchu government by the Opium War to develop its maritime trade in the Far East, thus beginning the history of Hong Kong becoming a British colony. From 1842 to 1997, Hong Kong was a British colony. On July 6th, Hong Kong returned to China.

The three parts of Hong Kong (Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories) come from three unequal treaties in different periods. 1840 after the first opium war, Britain forced the Qing government to sign the treaty of nanking on 1842 and cede Hong Kong Island. 1856, the British and French allied forces launched the second Opium War, forcing the Qing government to sign the Beijing Treaty in 1860, ceding the Kowloon Peninsula, the area south of today's Jiejie. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894, 1894, Britain forced the Qing government to sign the "Special Provisions on Expanding the Border of Hong Kong" in 1898, and forcibly leased the New Territories for 99 years until130 June 1997. Leasing in the New Territories has increased the area of Hong Kong tenfold.

Hong kong's return

19 At 0: 00 on July 1997, the regional flags of National Flag of the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were raised in Hong Kong. After a hundred years of vicissitudes, Hong Kong has returned to the embrace of the motherland, and the China government has resumed the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong.

1 From midnight on June 30th to early morning on July 30th, 997,1,the new wing of Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center was brightly lit, and the handover ceremony of Hong Kong's political power between the Chinese and British governments attracted worldwide attention was grandly held here in the Great Hall on the fifth floor.