Joint Declaration of the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Government of the People's Republic of China on the Question of Hong Kong, su cmab.gov.hk, Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Bureau, Hong Kong Government, 19 dicembre 1984. URL consultato il 4 ottobre 2010 (archiviato l'8 giugno 2018).
«The Government of the People's Republic of China declares that to recover the Hong Kong area (including Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories, hereinafter referred to as Hong Kong) is the common aspiration of the entire Chinese people, and that it has decided to resume the exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong with effect from 1 July 1997.»
