The History Tour of Hong Kong

As early as the Neolithic Age had been living in Hong Kong. Many places in the New Territories and Lantau Neolithic human settlements have been found in the ruins. Tang Kaiyuan 24 years, Hong Kong is through the state. The establishment of the military town of Tuen Mun, sent 2000 stationed to protect maritime trade.

In 1842, the Qing Dynasty in china travel the first Opium War was to defeat the British Empire, and the following year with the United Kingdom signed the "Nanjing Treaty", along with neighboring Hong Kong Island was ceded Ap Lei Chau and the United Kingdom to become the British colony of Hong Kong to open the port development. In 1860 the Qing court and then defeated the British and French troops, forced to sign a "Beijing Treaty", the Kowloon Peninsula south of Hong Kong Island, often with disturbing the peace of the region with the nearby Stonecutters Island ceded to Britain. At that time the new boundary on the Kowloon Peninsula, only split was short of barbed wire, position in today's Boundary Street. In 1898, the United Kingdom with the Qing court signed the "Extension of Hong Kong Boundary special section" and a host of other lease treaty, leasing the Kowloon Peninsula, the northern New Territories and outlying islands, but more than two hundred nearby Kowloon Walled City, except for a term of 99 years. This series of lease and ceded the formation of the boundary of Hong Kong today.

Hong Kong's last colonial flag, blue flag china tours and representatives from the British colony of Hong Kong's emblem of the composition.

1945 Hong Kong re-light (sight of the meaning), the Cenotaph in Central Taiwan and the United Kingdom before the rise after the victory flag, Union Jack also raised before the Government House in Hong Kong. Was due to the civil war began, the ROC government is unable to do justice to the British Government. When the Chinese Communist Party established the People's Republic in 1949, political power, Chinese and British sides to reach agreement on Hong Kong: China has no intention to recover sovereignty over Hong Kong, not the national government intervention in the former military and civilian activities in Hong Kong, in exchange for British People's Republic of recognition. In 1950, the United Kingdom's Republic of China, was the first Western countries to recognize the PRC. And later, as the PRC in the Korean War and the Western world against each other, embargoes by Western countries, the Hong Kong People's Republic of transit goods, collecting money, the only window to gather information.For more information, please shift to China Tour