Luo Dayou has a famous song "Pearl of the Orient", "The river bends to the south, stay at Xiangjiang to have a look, the Pearl of the Orient, my love", singing about Hong Kong. I have been attracted to this song since I was a child, and it was the year when Hong Kong returned to China in 1997, so my feelings for Hong Kong arose spontaneously.
Many years later, I have been to Hong Kong many times, and I also like it very much. Every time I'm in Victoria Harbor, blowing the sea breeze, I have many emotions about this city's past and present.
It is called the Pearl of the Orient and has a historical background. At the end of the 19th century, it was leased by the British and began the colonial period. Later, Britain took a fancy to Victoria Harbor and regarded it as a key location for Far Eastern trade. Open banks and bring about economic development. Promoted population mobility.
Later, due to historical reasons, a lot of Shanghai capital poured into Hong Kong in the 1940s, which brought huge changes in wealth and brought a lot of Shanghai-style culture, which was integrated with the original Chaoshan culture. , forming Hong Kong’s unique cultural heritage.
In the 1960s and 1970s, before mainland China opened up to the outside world, Hong Kong developed through the textile industry. And after China's reform and opening up, it became a bridge between China and the West. The economy has developed rapidly and it is known as one of the "Four Asian Tigers". In the past few decades, Hong Kong's economy has prospered, gold is everywhere, and it has become a dazzling "Pearl of the Orient".
Although Hong Kong is not developing as rapidly as in the past, under the premise of one country, two systems, it is still one of the few "free ports" in the world, and its financial and service industries are very developed.