At July 1st, 1997, China regained the administrative power of Hong Kong and established Hong Kong Special Administrative District of the People's Republic of China. Hong Kong has stepped into a new era.

Hong Kong locates in the eastern side of Zhu Jiang estuary and faces to the Southern China Sea. Hong Kong actually includes Hong Kong Island, Kowloon peninsula and New Territories (including Lantau and other 230 islands). In the north of Hong Kong, it's Shen Zhen Economic Development Region; from the west 60 kilometer of Hong Kong, it's Macao which is separated by the sea. The land area of Hong Kong is 1095 square kilometer, which is the extension from LingNan hill. Now Hong Kong is divided into Kim Tin, Sha Tin, Wan Chai, Tsing Yi, Tai Wai,Tai Po, Tsuen Wan, Kowloon, Tuen Mun, Chaung Chau, Lamma Island, Aberdeen, Repulse Bay and Stanly.

The population of Hong Kong is 6.68 million and the population density per square kilometer stands at 6,170. The main part of population is Chinese people, foreign people only occupies 3%. The major religions are practiced in Hong Kong, namely, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Christianity, Islam, Hindu, Sikh and Judaism.

The official language of Hong Kong is Chinese and English. The general currency is Hong Kong Dollar and RMB.

The main structure of Hong Kong Government includes: Chief Executive, Administration, Legislative Council and The Court of Final Appeal. The HKSAR also has the departments and agencies which are responsible to the bureau secretaries for the direction of their departments and the efficient implementation of approved policy. These departments and agencies include: Independent Commission Against Corruption、Audit Commission，Department of Finance, Department of Administration, Department of Justice and other sub-level offices, commissions and bureau.

According to the "The Basic Law of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China" (referred as The Basic Law)，The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region may on its own, using the name "Hong Kong, China", maintain and develop relations and conclude and implement agreements with foreign states and regions and relevant international organizations in the appropriate fields, including the economic, trade, financial and monetary, shipping, communications, tourism, cultural and sports fields.

The regional flag is in red, the chrominance value of which is identical with that of the national flag of the People's Republic of China . The regional flag is rectangular in shape with its length / height ratio being 3 to 2. At the centre of the regional flag is a white 5-petal bauhinia in swaying motion. The diameter of its outer circle is 3/5 of the regional flag's height. The petals are evenly arranged round the central point of the regional flag in a clockwise direction. Each petal bears a red 5-pointed star and a red style. The centre of the bauhinia lies on the central point of the regional flag . The case of the pole is in white.

The regional emblem is round in shape. It bears a red circular edge, an outer ring marked with scripts, a red inner ring with a design of a swaying bauhinia with 5 star-shaped stamens.

The swaying bauhinia design at the centre of the inner ring of the regional emblem is white in colour. It is formed by 5 petals, each with a red 5-pointed star and a red style. The petals are evenly arranged around the central point of the regional emblem in a clockwise direction. The centre of the bauhinia lies on the central point of the regional emblem.

The outer ring marked with scripts lies between the red circular edge and the red inner ring. The words and characters, on a white background, are red in colour. Evenly arranged in the upper part of the outer ring are the Chinese characters "中 華 人 民 共 和 國 香 港 特 別 行 政 區 " in complex form and in the standard format for the regional emblem. The bottom of each character points towards the centre of the regional emblem. The English words "HONG KONG" in the standard format for the regional emblem are evenly arranged further down the outer ring. The top of each alphabet points towards the centre of the regional emblem. In between the Chinese characters and the English words is a 5-pointed red star on two sides. One point of both stars points towards the centre of the regional emblem. The Chinese characters, the English words and the 5-pointed stars are symmetrically arranged with reference to the centrelines of the regional emblem.

Hong Kong's Science and Technology
The Chief Executive has in March 1998 appointed a Commission on Innovation and Technology. The Commission comprises prominent businessmen, academics and government officials. It has completed its tasks in July 1999 and has recommended a series of measures to make Hong Kong an innovation centre for South China and the region.
The Government has established a $5 billion innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) in July 1999 to support projects that contribute to innovation and technology upgrading in both the manufacturing and service industries.

To promote technology ventures undertaken by the private sector, the Applied Research Council operates the Applied Research Fund which has a working capital of $750 million. Venture funding is provided to private companies for undertaking technologically innovative projects with commercial potential.

The Government also finances projects beneficial to industrial or technological development through the Industrial Support Fund. The fund is administered by the industry Department on advice of the Industry and Technology Development Council (ITDC). In 1997/98, 341 applications were received and 84 applicants received the funding. For 1998/99, a provision of $274 million has been made.

In 2000, the Government announced a great projection--A Cyberport which will also be developed in partnership with the private sector at a cost of HK$13 billion. Indicative of Hong Kong's improving business environment for technology-based enterprises, a number of hi-tech companies, including Motorola, Nortel, StarTV, Sybase, 3M and Vtech, have also announced plans of investment in Hong Kong over the next few years.

In the course of changing from "Estate Island" to "Cyberport", the key is the intelligence. The Government already has gotten the ideas: one is to invest HK$1700 million to speed the training of native specific personnel; two is to formulate policies to attract foreign and inland talent people.

☆The Education of Hong Kong☆

Hong Kong's education has a fairly long history. 900 years ago, in North Song Dynasty, a people from JiangXi province named "Deng FU" move d his family to Hong Kong's New Territories and established a "Li Ying school" for public education. After the Britain's occupation, the traditional Confucian education still played a very important role. After World War Two, the Government in Hong Kong started to emphasize on education investment. Since 1970s, the education in Hong Kong has great growth and set up a multi-level, widely-spreading and practical system by steps.

The Features of Hong Kong Education：

1.The government provides nine years of universal basic education from the ages of six to 15.

2.The government will maintain a close liaison with the community at large and notice to promote their aggression for education. Meanwhile, the government always let the education be on the prior level on every year's budget. In 1990s, the government's educational investment is close (even over) the education spending of developed countries in 1980s.

3. The education system with multi-level and multi-channel has been established. By education level, the system includes kindergarten education, primary education, secondary education and higher education; by categories, the system includes the kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, universities, post colleges, industrial colleges, adult education colleges, special education schools and international schools; by funds sources, the system includes public school, private schools, and independent schools.

4. Higher Education. The University of Hong Kong、The Chinese University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have been enjoying their great reputation for scholarly research and opening education.
With both Chinese and English in common use, the government has been promoting the use of Chinese as the medium of instruction and enhancing the language proficiency of students. The government's aim is for student to identify himself (herself) as a Chinese people.

☆medical and health☆

Hong Kong's population of about 6.7 million is provided with a comprehensive range of medical and health services by the public and private sectors.

The Department of Health is the Government's health adviser and regulatory authority. It safeguards community health through a range of promotional, preventive, curative and rehabilitative services. The Department of Health operates 63 general out-patient clinics and 50 maternal and child health centres on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and New Territories. In addition, the Hospital authority runs 50 specialist out-patient clinics throughout Hong Kong. Treatment at a government general out-patient clinic costs $37 a visit, which includes medicine as well as X-ray examinations, laboratory teats, etc. The low costs can be afforded by most common and low-income families.
The Government/public services especially focuses on the public health, which include Family Health Services, Students Health Services, Infectious Disease prevention and Drug Treatment and Rehabilitation Services. All these steps effectively improve the public health.

Hong Kong's famous hospitals include：Tung Wah Group of Hospitals - Fung Yiu King Hospital, Tung Wah Hospital, Tung Wah Eastern Hospital, Queen Mary Hospital, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, MacLehose Medical Rehabilitation Centre, Yan Chai Hospital.

Hong Kong now is China's a special administrative region which still keeps itself as a famous international financial-trade centre and free port. Hong Kong is also the centre of Asia-Pacific's traffic, tourism and international meeting.

The economic structure in Hong Kong is founded on trading and improved from manufacture, finance, estate and tourism. Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Island are the HKSAR's politics, economy, culture and communication center.

In transportation, the The Victoria Harbour of Hong Kong is one of the Busiest international port；the Hong Kong new International Airport in LanTau is one of the most advanced Airport in the world; Kowloon is the end of Beijing-Kowloon Railway.

Hong Kong returned in China in 1997 and set up the administration of HKSAR which is led by the Chief Executive-Mr.Tung Chee Hwa. The administration of HKSAR honestly executes the policies like "One Country, Two Systems", "Hong Kong People ruling Hong Kong" and "a high degree of autonomy". Hong Kong has been a new region which has a wider and deeper association with Mainland of China before the return.

During the east-south Asia's financial crisis, Hong Kong met the hardest condition than ever before. After several time adjustments on economy, Hong Kong appeared a strong recovery in 2000. In last year, Hong Kong recorded a remarkable 10.5% real GDP growth in 2000; while merchandise exports surged by 17% in real terms, service exports rose 14.3%. The number of tourist arrivals grew by 15.3% to 13.06 million in 2000. By the end of December 2000, Hong Kong has become the world's 3rd largest foreign exchange reserves holding (US$107.5 billion).The handling capacity of the new airport at Chek Lap Kok in 2000 grew in 9.8% and 13.3% to 33.4 million passengers and 2.24 million tons of cargo. In 2000, there were 3,001 regional operations of overseas companies in Hong Kong as of June 2000, an increase of 20.5% from a year ago. 2000's registered tonnage was 10.71 million GT and total number of ships on the register was 581.