Remarkable change

President Hu Jintao arrived in Hong Kong yesterday to attend the 10th anniversary celebrations of Hong Kong's reunification with the motherland and the swearing-in ceremony of the new administration.

Arriving at the airport, Hu, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and chairman of the Central Military Commission, said that Hong Kong people had made enviable achievements over the past 10 years and gathered successful experience in "one country, two systems".

The special administrative region's (SAR) first decade has seen Deng Xiaoping's "one country, two systems" principle graduating from a scientific concept into reality, making ground-breaking accomplishments and winning Hong Kong compatriots' recognition and international acclaim.