China: Chairman Mao Zedong memorabilia for sale, Cat Street, near Blake Garden, Sheung Wan area, Hong Kong Island. Originally a sparsely populated ar


China: Chairman Mao Zedong memorabilia for sale, Cat Street, near Blake Garden, Sheung Wan area, Hong Kong Island. Originally a sparsely populated area of farming and fishing villages, Hong Kong has become one of the world's most significant financial centres and commercial ports. It is the world's tenth-largest exporter and ninth-largest importer. Hong Kong became a colony of the British Empire after the Qing Empire ceded Hong Kong Island at the end of the First Opium War in 1842.


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