which reflect our common goals. I am confident that we can do so because the Chinese Government has shown a firm commitment to preserving Hong Kong as a unique community, a community with major contributions still to make to China's own development, at the same time as it provides an increasingly attractive future for its own people.
153. I repeat once again our goal-“one country, two systems". What does that mean in practice? It means a prosperous China, made more prosperous still by the contribution of a vigorous, tolerant and open Hong Kong. We should look towards the fifty years beyond 1997. They will be even more successful than the fifty that went before. They will see our own system and our own way of life—which you made and of which all of us are part surviving and flourishing because it works so well, because it embodies values we all hold dear, and because of the example of decency and success that it offers to the rest of humanity.
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