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LettersAs China marks 100 years of the Communist Party, Hong Kong continues to bask in reflected glory
- Chinese people, whether at home or abroad, are proud of what our country has accomplished
- Hong Kong’s edge as a gateway to China evoked the envy of even the late Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew. Going forward, with the backing of the central government, Hong Kong will continue to thrive
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This year we celebrate the centenary of the Communist Party of China.
Needless to say, China has made remarkable achievements in the last century. It started with defeating Japanese aggression in the second world war, the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 and restoring all lawful rights including representation of the People’s Republic in the United Nations in 1971.
This was followed by the “opening up” policy and economic reform beginning in 1979, and China’s economic miracle subsequently achieved throughout the last 40 years, and certainly the designing of “one country, two systems” for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
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Chinese people, whether at home or abroad, are proud of what our country has accomplished.
From Hong Kong’s perspective, being a part of China is indeed our competitive advantage and, since the colonial era, international capital and enterprises have eyed the enormous and lucrative Chinese market. Hong Kong thrives because we make good use of our role as a gateway to China, and that not only remains true today, but also will continue to be true in the future.
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Visitors mark Chinese Communist Party centenary with pilgrimage to ‘Red Holy Land’
Visitors mark Chinese Communist Party centenary with pilgrimage to ‘Red Holy Land’
Indeed, our edge as a gateway to China, our proximity to the mainland, had evoked the envy of even the late Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew. And that edge is exactly what Singapore can never acquire.
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