Birthing pains A seven-year period of economic recession and turbulence followed close on the heels of the People's Liberation Army soldiers who entered Hong Kong on 1 July 1997, presenting an immediate and serious challenge to the unprecedented "one country, two systems" experiment.
1997 年 7 月 1 日，解放軍入港，緊接而來的是一波長達 7 年的經濟動盪與衰退，「一國兩制」──國際政治史上獨一無二的實驗──能否運作成功，一開始就面臨艱困的挑戰。