Since taking over in 1997, the SAR government has followed suit, granting as many as 150 single-entry permits a day, which equates to over 50,000 new immigrants settling in Hong Kong each year, or over 500,000 in the past decade.
97 年後，英規中隨的特區政府簽發的「單程證」數量提升到每日 150 張，等於每年有超過 5 萬名新移民在香港落腳，至今總人數已超過 50 萬人，而同期香港人口也不過才增加 70 萬人。