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© Lonely Planet Publications 518 l o n e l y p l a n e t . c o m H O N G K O N G • • H i s t o r y 519 HISTORY was agreed China would take over the entire Hong Kong was very much a far-flung out- territory from Britain in 1997, but what would Hong Kong post of the Chinese empire until European become the Special Administrative Region traders started importing opium into the (SAR) of Hong Kong would retain its free- country. The British, with a virtually inex- market economy as well as its social and legal haustible supply from the poppy fields of systems for 50 years. China called it ‘One Bengal, developed the trade aggressively and