Hong Kong Returns Home

At zero hour on July 1, 1997, the five-star red flag of China and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) rose slowly and solemnly to the top of their respective poles at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, marking the return of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. The event ushered in a new era for Hong Kong and the interior areas to develop hand-in-hand.

(Beijing Review: A Moment of Epoch-Making Significance, No.29, 1997)

Deng Xiaoping Passes Away in Beijing at the Age of 93

Deng Xiaoping was an outstanding leader enjoying high prestige acknowledged by the Party, the army and people of all nationalities throughout China. He was a great Marxist and great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist and diplomat, a long-tested Communist fighter, chief architect of China's socialist reforms, opening-up and modernization drive, and founder of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics.

(BeijingReview: Message to the Whole Party, the Whole Army and the People of All Nationalities Throughout the Country, No.10, 1997)