General Background

Hong Kong is located in East Asia, where Guangzhou, China is at north of Hong Kong separated by the Shenzhen River. Hong Kong was under United Kingdom's control from 1842 to 1997 as a colony. Therefore, Hong Kong's culture and lifestyle is totally different from China, which makes Hong Kong a place that have both western and traditional Chinese culture. Despite the fact that Hong Kong is only the size of New York City, it is one of the most densely populated city in the world with 7,008,900. In 1997, Hong Kong become a special administrative region, which means nominally Hong Kong is under China's control, but under the "One country, two systems." Hong Kong enjoys high degree of autonomy except defense and foreign affairs.