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The Colony or Hong Long concists of four areas:-
(1) Hong Kong Island (29 square miles) ceded by Uldna vo
Great Britain in perpetuity under the Treaty of
Wanking, 1842.
(11) A strip of land on the howloon Peninsula, with a few
small islands (about four square miles) ceded by the
Peking Convention 1860.
(ii) The New Territorius (365 square miles) leased to Great
Britain for 99 years under the Fcking Convention 1898
(this includes the remainder of the islands).
(iv) Included in (111) above, the so-called "Wall/Oity of
Kowloon" (64 acres), an area in which, under the 1890
Convention, the Chinose retained curtain jurisdictional
rights which we extinguished in 1899. Our legal
position is by no means clear cut. The Chinese have
repeatedly revived their claim to jurisdiction, the
last occasion being in 1963.
Fopulation.
The population of the Colony is about 3.6 million, of whom
98%% are Chinese and predominantly Cantonese. About half of the
Chinese populution have, or are entitled to, the status cl
Citizens of the United Kingdom and Colonies. Non-Chinese
(including British Servicemen and families) number about 75,000.
The natural rate of increase is 2-5% per annum.
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About 50% of the population are below the age of twenty,
giving rise to many social problems in such a concentrated urabn
area. Who need to keep abreast of the social problems and this
potential increase to the working population underline the
importance of maintaining a high rate of growth in the economy.
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