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The Hong Kong Handover

16/07/2013 GMT

BBC World Service - Witness History, The Hong Kong Handover

Former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.

Britain's former Governor General, Chris Patten, remembers the day the territory returned to China.

In 1997 Hong Kong was a buzzing hub of capitalism surrounded by a Communist state.  It was also a  colonial relic - still ruled largely from Britain.  It was the job of  former Governor General, Chris Patten to hand it over to China.  He remembers that day.

Photo: Chris Patten receiving the British flag. Credit: AFP/Getty Images

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