On the Southern coast of China, the strategic location of Hong-Kong in the delta of the River of pearls and on the banks of South China Sea made of this city one of most cosmopolitan and most dynamic to the world.
Hong-Kong such as we know her today was born during the defeat of the Chinese dynasty Qing continuation in the first Ogaden War in 1842: she gave up then the island of Hong-Kong to the British. During the next 60 years, Kowloon, the New territories and 235 islands were given up in Great Britain. But the history of the 1100 square kilometers which form Hong-Kong today goes back to more than 1000 years before the dynasty Qing. By exploring the colourful inheritance of the city, you will discover it stories of powerful clans, adventurous pirates and European traders. From its entry in the status of British colony, Hong-Kong acts as moving plate of the international trade. In the slump of the beginning of the XXth century, the poulation of the city explodes continuation upon the arrival of refugees, mainly come from China. The massive arrival of the immigrants contributes to give a new role in Hong-Kong: that of a leading industrial platform.
It also brings an industrial dynamism stimulating in the city. These last decades, while the mainland China opens gradually its economy, Hong-Kong knows a new transformation by directing this time its economy to the services and acting as door of access to the biggest market of the world. Under the principle " A country, two systems ", Hong-Kong becomes an administrative special Region of the People's Republic of China on July 1st, 1997.This arrangement allows the city to keep a strong degree of autonomy, in particular by preserving its capitalist system, the independence of its judicial and legislative system, the free exchange and the freedom of expression. The history of the city seems to have only a constant: its permanent change. But in spite of the multiple revivals of the city, the spirit of Hong-Kong remained intact. The energy and the dynamism which transformed a handle of fishermen's peaceful villages into a crossroads of the international trade pulls from now on the world city of Asia in the XXIth century.
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