A Unique System Of Hong Kong - 1258 Words

â€Å"One country, two systems†, it is a unique system which is using between Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the People s Republic of China. According to the Sino-British Joint Declaration, the United Kingdom willing to return the power of governing Hong Kong back to China if the Chinese Government agrees to let Hong Kong’s life styles, political system remain unchanged for 50 years (). Not only remain unchanged for 50 years, The Chinese also made different promises to make sure the sovereignty will transferred probably. Those promises gave a certain level of confident to those people in Hong Kong that their freedom will not be deprived by the Chinese Government but living as same as the same standard that time. The good day have†¦show more content†¦Chinese Government using â€Å"ideological education† to the people from Hong Kong in different generations which brought a huge conflict and impact unto the society. Local identity, language are taking away by the Chinese Government because of the changes of the education system. Even though the Chinese Government already take over the sovereignty of Hong Kong at 1997, people at Hong Kong do not think they are â€Å"Chinese† and that is the reason China do different ideological education to â€Å"teach† People in Hong Kong to be proud of being a Chinese. For the youngest generation, the Chinese Government decided to â€Å"education† their love toward China. In the book â€Å"primary student handbook of the basic law of Hong Kong† which is given to all primary students in all primary schools in Hong Kong, it mention that whenever people see the flag of the People s Republic of China and hear the anthem, they should be proud to be a Chinese (10). Also it also mentioned that Hong Kong people should always cooperate with what the government said and support and maintain the authority of the Chief Executive (4046). 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