Hong Kong, Ten Years After

Article title: Hong Kong, Ten Years After
Written by Fiona NG
Journal: The Nation.
Published: June 21, 2007 (July 9, 2007 issue)
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By official count, more than 450 celebratory events have been scheduled from April to December this year, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's handover from British to Chinese rule.
Hong Kong has experienced big changes in the first ten years of the "One Country, Two Systems." Before launching into an economic renaissance, it was in the inextricably tied to that mainland China. Bilateral trade between the two economies reached $166 billion in 2006, up from $113 billion in 2004.