'One country, two systems' is a unique approach making huge contributions, official says (2)

Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor speeches at a high-level seminar on the relationship between the Communist Part of China and the "one country, two systems" at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre on June 12, 2021. [Photo by Edmond Tang/China Daily]

Addressing the forum, Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said Hong Kong's smooth return to the motherland is a significant part of the Party's achievements made during the past century.

To enable Hong Kong people to retain as much as possible their familiar institutional setting and ways of life, the Party and the central government designed the "one country, two systems" framework, she said.

It fully demonstrated the Party's care of Hong Kong people's well-being and its people-oriented principle, Lam said.

During the same event, Leung said the Party has set the precedent of peacefully resolving territorial and sovereignty issues left over by history, with the principle of "one country, two systems". It also set an example in regard to the rule of law and democracy, he said.