Back to 1997

In the wee hours of July 1, 1997, Rita Fan Hsu Lai-tai, president of the Provisional Legislative Council, chaired a meeting of the council which deliberated and passed the Hong Kong Reunification Ordinance. That same morning, Gabriel Leung Cheuk-wai, who is now dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, had to catch a flight to begin his graduate studies in public health at Harvard University in the United States …

We asked six Hong Kong residents born in different years questions about Hong Kong and the year 1997.