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A FEW FACTS
• Population is 6.9 million.
• There are over 257,000 maids in Hong Kong.
• Average household income is HK$216,000 per year.
• Average public housing flat is 334 square feet.
• Average number of people per household is 3.2 people.
• Total land area is only 1,095 square kilometers and
includes 235 outlying islands
• 80% of people live on 8% of the land.
• 40% is National Park.
• 13.73 million tourists visited Hong Kong in
2001.
• 41,829 hotel rooms.
• Number of container boats that come through Hong Kong
last year was 429,640 making it the busiest terminal in the
world.
• Number of passenger planes that landed at Chep Lap
kwok in 2001 was 174,935.
• Chep Lap Kwok Airport is the largest covered structure
in the world.
• Personal tax is 15.5% flat, increasing to 16% for 2004/05.
• Hong Kong is the worlds 8th largest trading entity.
• There are over 9,000 restaurants. |
HISTORY
• HK Island came into British possession on 26 June
1842. The second Anglo-Chinese War in 1860 gave the British
the Kowloon Peninsula and then they also claimed the New
Territories 40 years later. However instead of taking the
land outright
they agreed to a 99 year lease.
• In 1941 Japan occupied the territory for 4 years.
• The communist revolution in China sent refugees running
to Hong Kong from 1949 helping the population increase from
600,000 in 1945 to 3 million in 1960.
• Britain’s 99 year lease expired in 1997. Although
it was only bound to hand-back the New Territories, it would
have been a difficult division.
• On the 30 June 1997 a joint declaration formed the
Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China (SAR).
It
allows Hong Kong to retain its economic and legal systems
for 50 years after the handover.
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