Hong Kong people Oxford English Dictionary in March 2014. Hong Kong people do not comprise one particular ethnicity, and people that live in Hong Kong are independent of Chinese citizenship and residency status. The majority of Hong Kongers are of Chinese descent and are ethnic Chinese (with most having ancestral roots in the province of Guangdong); however there are also Hongkongers of, for example, Indian, Filipino, Nepalese, Indonesian, Pakistani, Vietnamese, and British descent. Expatriates from many other countries live and work in the city. During the years leading up to the 1997 handover of sovereignty from Britain to China, many residents left Hong
Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle chairperson. Hong Kong and Kowloon Committee for Anti-Hong Kong British Persecution Struggle The Committee of Hongkong-Kowloon Chinese Compatriots of All Circles for Struggle Against Persecution by the British Authorities in Hongkong or the All-Circle Struggle Committee ( or 港英迫害鬥爭委員會) was a committee established by pro-Communist Party of China activists in 1967. The committee was established during the 1967 Hong Kong riot. The committee explicitly targeted the British Colonial government in Hong Kong. According to "Ta Kung Pao" reports on May 24, 1967, there were 348 leftist activists joined the committee, in which Yeung Kwong, leader of FTU, was elected as