HK290508 Beijing ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE in Chinese 0747 GMT 28 Jan 83
Text] Beijing, 28 Jan (ZHONGGUO XINWEN SHE)
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In his article published in the maga- zine JINDAI SHI YANJIU (RESEARCH OF MODERN HISTORY) No. 1, 1983, Ding Genan гopp2 0677 2809], a research worker in the Institute of Modern History in the Academy of Social Science of China, discusses the history of Britain's occupation of Hong Kong. The article stresses that to carry out the reunification of the motherland, to return territory to its rightful owners and to recover the entire Hong Kong area is the just
The Chinese people must fulfill and common desire of the 1 billion Chinese people. this historical mission which cannot be obstructed by any force.
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The article says that the Hong Kong area occupied by Britain comprises three parts: 1) Hong Kong Island; 2) south of boundary street (South Kowloon) on the Kowloon Peninsula; 3) south of the Shenzhen River and north of Boundary Street on the Kowloon Peninsula (North Kowloon), and the area around Hong Kong Island and the islands around Dapeng Bay and Shenzhen Bay (the area now called "New Territories"). These three areas
The occupation were captured from the Qing government by Britain in the 19th century. of Hong Kong Island by Britain was based on the 1842 "Nanjing Treaty" and the occupa-
These two tion of South Kowloon Peninsula was based on the 1860 "Beijing Treaty.' treaties were the "allies under the wall" signed under the threat of British guns. 1898, after the Sino-Japanese war of 1894-1895 in which the Qing government was defeated, Britain forced the Qing Government to sign the "Special Treaty on Extension of the Hong Kong Boundary" in order to lease the territory of the North Kowloon
The area of these three parts Peninsula and over 200 islands for a 99-year term.
covers 1,061.8 square kilometers and including the land reclaimed along the coast
These three the latter part is about 11 times the total area of the former two parts. treaties on Britain's occupation of Hong Kong are unequal. They are the criminal records of Britain's brutal invasion of China and they are also evidence of the oppression and humiliation Chinese people suffered in the past.
In his article quoting proven historical records, Ding Genan exposes in great detail how Britain forced the Qing government to sign unequal treaties and occupied Hong Kong Island and the South Kowloon Peninsula, leased the North Kowloon Peninsula and the
The article praises the Chinese people, nearby islands by means of force and threats.
including the compatriots in Hong Kong, for their protracted struggles against Hong Kong's occupation by Britain.
The article stresses that after the Pacific war broke out Japan captured the Hong Kong area effortlessly and it was only the Chinese people who persisted in struggle against Japan. After Japan's surrender Britain returned to Hong Kong and continued its rule
over the area.
Ding Genan's article points out in conclusion that the Chinese people have never accepted the unequal treaties on the Hong Kong area which were signed under British compulsion. Since liberation the Chinese Government's consistent position is that it is not bound by the unequal treaties and will recover the Hong Kong area when conditions are ripe. Now the time has passed forever when imperialism can ride roughshod and do as it pleases. The Chinese people have stood up. To be infatuated with the past, to attempt vainly to hold on to this land, to quibble over the unequal treaties by distorting international law or to practice blackmail by citing Hong Kong as China's major source of foreign currency all these will serve nothing.
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