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has brought us together and enriched all our lives. Thirteen years ago the Governments of the United Kingdom and the Peoples Republic of China recognised in the Joint Declaration that these special elements which had created the crucial conditions for Hong Kongs success should continue. They agreed that, in order to maintain that success, Hong Kong should have its own separate trading and financial systems, enjoy autonomy and an elected legislature, maintain its laws and liberties, and be run by the people of Hong Kong and be accountable to them. Those special elements have served Hong Kong well over the past two decades. Hong Kong has coped with the challenges of great economic, social and political transition with almost none of the disturbance and dislocation which in other parts of the world