CIIC:Today's featured article/August 5, 2016

The late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping and then British prime minister Margaret Thatcher met for the negotiation of Hong Kong's future at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing in 1982.

The key points of the "one country, two systems" (一国两制) policy are that within the People's Republic of China, the main body (mainland) will continue with its socialist system, while Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan will maintain the capitalist system. The aim is to achieve peaceful reunification of the motherland and maintain stability and prosperity in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. One country is the premise and basis of the two systems, and recognition of the principle means recognition of the premise of "one country" that refers to the PRC, and that the main body of the nation will maintain the socialist system with Chinese characteristics. The policy is an important component of the socialism with Chinese characteristics. (More...)