HISTORY
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British Pacific Fleet to establish a temporary military government. Civil government was formally restored on May 1, 1946, when Sir Mark Young resumed his interrupted governorship.
With the return of peace, Chinese civilians who had moved from Hong Kong to China during the war moved back again and with them many other migrants. The population rose from an estimated 600,000 in August 1945 to more than two million in 1950. The government's early efforts to cope with this population explosion had, of necessity, to concentrate on basic needs. But from these efforts grew the social structure which is now an integral part of the modern Hong Kong.