
After the Japanese seized Manchuria in 1932, Sino-Japanese War began in 1937 over the past 30 years, while Japan advanced into China, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese fled to Hong Kong. The population of Hong Kong, 1.6 million people on the eve of World War II, and estimated that about 100,000 refugees arrived in 1937, 500,000 in 1938 and 150,000 in 1939.
World War II disrupted the economic and social life in Hong Kong. Birth Day Holiday in 1941, gave the British Army and the Japanese. American submarines had for the Japanese, who failed to use Hong Kong as a base support for the invasion of East Asia. After Japan surrendered in August 14, 1944, he won the British land lost.
After Japan's surrender, and returned from the Chinese civilians, at about $ 100,000 per month. At the end of 1947 the population was estimated at around 1.8 million people. Then met with Hong Kong in the period between 1948-1949, and the forces of the Nationalist Chinese government began to arrive, to see the defeat of the Communists, and the influx of refugees than ever before. Hundreds of thousands of people from the province of Guangdong, Shanghai and other centers of trade in the region in 1949. In the spring of 1950 the total population around 2.2 million €. Since then, continued to grow and is now close to 7 million people.
In the July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to China, and became a "special administrative region" of the People's Republic of China under the policy of "one country, two systems". Under the Sino-British Joint Declaration of 1984, is to maintain economic, legal, social, for a period not less than 50 years after 1997. It is still one of the cities of the world's most exciting and dynamic world.

