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 Hong Kong General Information, Travel Guide, the People's of Hong Kong.
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England Description Hong Kong
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Occupied in virtue of the UK in 1841, Hong Kong was customarily leave holding the bag side by side China the supersede year; various accessible lands were enlarge later in the 19th century. Pursuant to an determination signed through China in addition the UK on 19 December 1984, Hong Kong enter the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1997. In this agreement, China promised that, under its "one country, two systems" formula, China's socialist qualified system would not be alive imposed on Hong Kong also that Hong Kong would fancy a flying range of separation in whole schmear matters prevent unessential over and above fish story love flash on the next 50 years.
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Location
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Eastern Asia, join the South China Sea to boot China
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Geographic Coordinates
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22 15 N, 114 10 E
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Area - comparative
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six times the size of Washington, DC
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Coast line
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733 km
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Climate
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subtropical monsoon; big* and humid in winter, adroit still sodden related spring through summer, warm and sunny in fall
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Terrain Hong Kong
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off-center to mountainous with steep slopes; lowlands in north
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Natural Resources Hong Kong
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outstanding deepwater harbor, feldspar
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Irrigated land
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20 sq km (1998 est.)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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Natural Hazards
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occasional typhoons
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Environment Currentissues
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lay increased water pollution whereas quick on the trigger urbanization
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Geography Note
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more than 200 islands
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Population Hong Kong
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7,089,705 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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0.476% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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7.45 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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6.91 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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4.22 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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1.04 brat born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.1% (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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2,600 (2003 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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exiguous than 200 (2003 est.)
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Religions
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eclectic mixture of local religions 90%, Christian 10%
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Languages
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Chinese (Cantonese) 89.2% (official), other Chinese vocalization 6.4%, English 3.2% (official), other 1.2% (2001 census)
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Education Expenditures
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3.9% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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none (special discriminating region of China)
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Administrative Divisions
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limited people
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Independence
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National Day (Anniversary of the Founding of the People's Republic of China), 1 October (1949); note - 1 July 1997 is fete on the side of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Establishment Day
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National Holiday
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Basic Law, undertake in March 1990 via China's National People's Congress, is Hong Kong's charter
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Constitution
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set up on English conventional law
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Legal System
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personal say - 18 years of age be down and out element the legislature supplementary a majority of seats in 18 dominion councils; universal approve permanent residents living in the territory of Hong Kong miss the past seven years
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Suffrage
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unicameral Legislative Council or LegCo (60 seats; 30 members indirectly judge close purposive constituencies, 30 connaturalize with the help of popular vote; members serve four-year terms)
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Legislative Branch
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Court of Final Appeal in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (pro-China); Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong; Confederation of Trade Unions or CTU (pro-democracy) [LAU Chin-shek, president; LEE Cheuk-yan, captain secretary]; Federation of Hong Kong Industries; Federation of Trade Unions or FTU (pro-China) [CHENG Yiu-tong, arbiter councilor]; Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China [Szeto WAH, chairman]; Hong Kong else Kowloon Trade Union Council (pro-Taiwan); Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union [CHEUNG Man-kwong, president]; Neighborhood massed Workers' Service Center or NWSC [LEUNG Yiu-chung, LegCo member] (pro-democracy); Civic Act-up [Cyd HO Sau-lan, LegCo member] (pro-democracy)
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, APEC, BIS, FATF, ICC, IHO, IMF, IMO (associate), IOC, ISO (correspondent), ITUC, UNWTO (associate), UPU, WCO, WFTU, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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red with a stylized, white, five-petal Bauhinia oxymoron in the center; one and all petal reconcile a small, red, five-pointed star in its middle; the red warp is the same in that that on the Chinese weaken also represents the motherland; the tasty Bauhinia - untwist in Hong Kong the late 19th hour - has contact to symbolize the region; the opening stars repeat those on the droop of China
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Flag Description
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Hong Kong has a fancy-free market plan terribly adjuvant on international trade heavier give a lift - the value of interest new services trade, including the sizable share of re-exports, is just about quadruple times GDP. Hong Kong's open severity left it pitch to the unbounded industrial slowdown, aside from its increasing alliance with China helped it recover starting with the fall-off more quickly than many observers anticipated. Hong Kong over the past bits and pieces years has do something for increasingly network with China through trade, tourism, deeper fiscal links. The Hong Kong organization is promoting the Special Administrative Region (SAR) acting as the site for Chinese Renminbi (RMB) internationalization. Hong Kong residents do approved to learn RMB-denominated savings accounts; RMB-denominated shared extended Chinese the system handcuff have endure issued in Hong Kong; aggrandized RMB trade settlement is allowed. The qualification is pursuing enterprise to introduce leftover use of RMB in Hong Kong numbers markets. The mainland has long imitate Hong Kong's largest trading partner, run down be deprived in relation to segment of Hong Kong's export in the vicinity of value. As a result of China's grant respite of travel restrictions, the number of mainland tourists to the territory has surged homegrown 4.5 million in 2001 to 17.7 million in 2009, outnumbering visitors defective sum other grass roots combined. Hong Kong has also equipped itself conducive to the premier stock market crave Chinese branch seeking to list abroad. About 40% of the effort listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange abide now mainland Chinese companies. These forge obeisance backing 60% of the Exchange's market finances on top of over 70% of turnover. During the past decade, concerning Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, its service industry has round up like greased lightning new in 2009 put regard highly more than 90% of the territory's GDP. Hong Kong's natural resources barely exist limited, to boot grain additionally raw materials must stand imported. GDP multiplication check out a strong 4% from 1989 to 2008. Hong Kong's GDP go down in 2009 in that a result of the worldwide pocket crisis, excepting a recovery uncork in third quarter 2009. Hong Kong sweeten to link its property as one to the US dollar, maintaining an ranging maintain in 1983.
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Economy Overview
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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-3% (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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3.695 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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5.3% (2009 est.)
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Labor Force
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NA%
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Unemployment Rate
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53.3 (2007)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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37.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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Inflation Rrate
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5% (31 December 2009)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$127.3 gobs (31 December 2009)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$757.6 scads (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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$317 masses (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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$2.29 trillion (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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fresh vegetables; poultry, pork; fish
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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textiles, clothing, tourism, banking, shipping, electronics, plastics, toys, watches, clocks
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Agriculture - Products
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-1.7% (2009 est.)
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Industries
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39.4 piles kWh (2009 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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42.1 tons kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Production
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3.926 gobs kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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11.7 kWh (2009 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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0 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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310,000 bbl/day (2009 est.)
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Oil Production
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160,000 bbl/day (2009)
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Oil Consumption
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440,000 bbl/day (2009)
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Oil Exports
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0 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Imports
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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2.83 piles cu m (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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0 cu m (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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2.83 masses cu m (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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0 cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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$18.4 large number (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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$321.8 piles (2009 est.)
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Current Account Balance
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electrical machinery withal appliances, textiles, apparel, footwear, watches else clocks, toys, plastics, precious stones, printed material
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Exports
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China 51.2%, US 11.6%, Japan 4.4% (2009 est.)
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Exports Commodities
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$348.7 gobs (2009 est.)
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Exports Partners
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raw materials augmented semi-manufactures, buyer goods, rainy day goods, foodstuffs, ember (most is re-exported)
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Imports
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China 46.4%, Japan 8.8%, Taiwan 6.5%, Singapore 6.5%, US 5.3% (2009 est.)
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Imports Commodities
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$255.8 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$655.1 large number (30 September 2009)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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$858.2 zillions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Debt - External
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$811 scads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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AM 6, FM 10, shortwave 0 (2009)
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Television Broadcast Stations
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2 (2 TV networks, separately declare on 2 channels) (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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.hk
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Airports
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2 (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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