Date
Events in Peking
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Events in Hong Kong
15 May
President Gorbachev arrives in Peking.
LI Tieying and YEN Mingfu meet students' representatives. YEN
says that most of the students are motivated by patriotism and that the party and the students have a common goal to solve the problems of the nation.
20 representatives of HKFS stage hunger strike outside NCNA.
- A student from the Chinese University of
Hong Kong reads out a public letter to State Council in Tiananmen square, urging Chinese Government to open a dialogue with the students.
16 May
About 30,000 students remain in the Square.
Gorbachev's visit to the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution in the Square cancelled.
ZHAO Ziyang tells Gorbachev that DENG is still our 'Party's leader' and the 'helmsman'.
ZHAO sends an sympathetic open letter to the students on behalf of the Standing Committee of the Portburo. He also asks the students to end the hunger strike.
17 students continue hunger strike. Many members of the public pay visits to the students and donate money.
HKFS call for boycott of classes by all tertiary institutions. Six institutions respond.
Rally organized by HKFS at Chater Garden. March to Victoria Park and petition handed to NCNA.