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PROGRESS IN IMPLEMENTING THE SINO-BRITISH JOINT

DECLARATION OF 1984 ON HONG KONG (FCO/FAC/3/89)

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I.

Background to the negotiation of the Joint

Declaration

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1. Under the Treaty of Nanking (1842) and the

Convention of Peking (1860), Hong Kong Island, the

southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula and Stonecutters

Island were ceded to Britain in perpetuity. The rest of

the territory of Hong Kong (comprising 92% of the total

land area) was leased to Britain for 99 years from 1 July

1898 under a further Convention signed in Peking in that

year. This leased area, consisting of the area north of

Kowloon up to the Shenzhen River and 235 adjacent

islands, is known as the New Territories.