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156-year British rule in HK ends tonight
HONG KONG. June 29: On the eve of recovering Hong Kong. China pledged today to preserve its autonomy, Britain bade elegiac farewells and rival camps geared up for marathon celebrations and protest rallies, reports AP.
With the world watching, foreign VIPs converged on Hong Kong for the ceremony ending 156 years of colonial rule at midnight tomorrow.
In Beijing. President Jiang Zemin renewed China's vow to safeguard the freedoms and capitalist vigor that have made Hong Kong an economic powerhouse.
"We will firmly ... safeguard the Hong Kong residents’ rights and freedoms in accordance with the law." China’s official news agency, Xinhua, quoted Jiang as saying before he left the Chinese capital to review the troops China is sending into Hong Kong.
While China prepared a triumphant military entry into its newly regained territory,
Britain staged more final flourishes in the style of empire's heyday.
In an elegant ballroom at the hilltop Government House, Prince Charles donned dress whites and took up a ceremonial sword to bestow knighthoods on three of the colony's luminaries.
The Chinese-approved incoming government, perhaps pointedly, scheduled similar honours ceremonies for the day after the handover, with Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen presiding.
Six hours after the handover. China is bringing in 4,000 troops by ships, helicopters and armored vehicles, Britain has protested, saying armored personnel carriers in urban areas will alarm people.
China has been brusque on other points as well. It has not made public when President Jiang and Premier Li Peng will arrive for the ceremonies at the brand new harbourfront convention centre.
The Chinese leaders will stay at a hotel on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong and come to the handover venue by boat, ensuring that they will be well shielded from the small demonstrations police have authorised outside the convention
centres.
Reuter from London says, Chinese president and premier will not attend a farewell banquet in Hong Kong. British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said.
But Cook denied that their absence would be a snub, telling BBC television's Breakfast with Frost programme in Hong Kong that Britain had never expected them to attend.
China's capital was gripped with excitement in the final days of the countdown to the historic return of Hong Kong after 156 years of British colonial rule.
Tens of thousands of people, hoping to share in the thrill of the moment, clogged Beijing's streets late on Saturday and into the early hours today, snarling traffic and lending a carnival atmosphere to the city.
Many sat on street corners, playing cards, chatting excitedly and revelling in the run-up to the end of colonial rule at the stroke of midnight (1600 GMT) tomorrow.
Meanwhile, Hong Kong's first post-handover legislative elections will be held in May next year, a spokesman for future ruler Tung Chee-Hwa said today.
"May is what we're aiming at." he told AFP.