On the eve of the return of Hong Kong, this "brightest jewel in the crown of capitalism," to socialist China in 1997, the territory's status has already been quietly changing: today it has become a "dragon pearl" --a guiding light illuminating the path ahead for the mainland's 1.2 billion "heirs of the dragon."
香港，這顆「資本主義皇冠上最璀燦的明珠」，在一九九七年回歸社會主義「中國」前夕，定位已然悄悄轉向，搖身變為替「中國」十二億龍的傳人引導探路的「龍珠」。