The media in Hong Kong have entered into a great debate. On one side are those who say Hong Kong was nothing but a fishing village, a barren place without crops or signs of human habitation. It was the British that made it into an international entrepot.
回歸前夕，香港媒體展開了兩頭辯論，一方說香港原是個漁村，甚或是個草木不植，沒有人煙的荒島，是英國人讓它成為國際商港的。