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* Xishuangbanna, People's Republic of China – since 1997

When Hong Kong was handed over to China in 1997, Hong Kong retained the common law through a reception statute in Chapter I, Article 8 of the Basic Law of Hong Kong:

Chad and Taiwan had relations from 1962 to 1972 and 1997 to 2006 when, for financial and security reasons, Chad announced its intention to recognize China.

1997 — Full diplomatic relations established with China.

Deng Xiaoping ( Pinyin: Dèng Xiǎopíng, ; 22 August 1904 – 19 February 1997 ) was a politician and reformist leader of the Communist Party of China who led China towards a market economy.

Nine years later ( 1997 ), while traveling to a three-way summit between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, Air Force One is hijacked by a terrorist disguised as a stewardess.

Greenpeace East Asia's first China office was opened in Hong Kong in 1997.

On 1 July 1997, sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China ( PRC ), ending over one and a half centuries of British rule.

Since the 1997 handover Hong Kong's economic future became far more exposed to the challenges of economic globalisation competition directly from mainland China.

With an eye toward the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the British in 1997, authorities in China sought Pei's aid on a new tower for the local branch of the Bank of China.

However, in the case of Hong Kong, irredentism was incidental: The New Territories part of the British colony were only on a lease expiring in 1997 anyway and, with their surrender, it was thought the Crown territory of Hong Kong itself would be nonviable as an entity independent of mainland China.

In 1997, the ASEAN member nations and the People's Republic of China, South Korea and Japan agreed to hold yearly talks to further strengthen regional cooperation, the ASEAN Plus Three meetings.

* 1997 – China announces it will spend US $ 27. 7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.

* 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

* 1997 – China resumes sovereignty over the city-state of Hong Kong, ending 156 years of British colonial rule.

Hong Kong's court system has been changed since the 1997 handover of sovereignty to the People's Republic of China.

* 1997 – A China Southern Airlines Boeing 737 crashes on approach into Bao ' an International Airport, killing 35 people.

* 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.

Since 1997 there has been a steady stream of illegal emigration to China, despite the efforts of both countries to prevent it.

* 1997 – After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.

Due to the growing dependence on oil and gas, the total length of oil and gas pipelines in China has risen to 70 from 22 in 1997, stretching from oil and gas fields in western and northeastern regions to densely populated coastal areas in the east.

Hong Kong was handed back to China in 1997, and the same year the British government published a review of the Dependent Territories.