with Simon Winchester In eight years' time the colony of Hong Kong, its
99-year lease having expired, passes back to the original owner, China. Six million people will then become citizens of the Communist country from which many of them fled in the first place.
Uncertainty among many, even panic among some, has caused thousands of the best and the brightest citizens to make plans to leave the colony. Might their decision to go, to denude the place of so much of the very talent which has made it such a power-house of capitalism, cause Hong Kong to wither and die? Or might this most vital example of entrepreneurial spirit be just the spark-plug that China needs?
Film team HAMDARNI MILAS
CHAN CHU VAN , MAX WHEELER Producer TOM SAVAGE
An ASPECT PRODUCTION for BBCtv