Hong Kong-Mainland Integration Legacy / 中港融合遺產

Definition

Hong Kong-mainland integration legacy is the source’s frame for policies that brought Hong Kong and mainland China closer after the handover while also changing legal, economic, and social tensions.

Current Synthesis

The source presents integration as ambivalent. CEPA and the individual-visit scheme helped stimulate Hong Kong after SARS, but the episode argues that they also helped lay groundwork for later cross-border tensions. The right-of-abode interpretation adds a legal version of the same dynamic: integration and support arrived with institutional dependence on mainland authority.

Key Claims

• Tung-era integration policies delivered short-term economic support after crisis.
• The same policies could intensify later Hong Kong-mainland social and political tension.
• Legal interpretation and economic integration belong to the same broader reorder of post-handover relations.

Evidence

• Economic support: 董建華逝世：「愛國者元老」的香港人生 says CEPA and individual visits stimulated Hong Kong after SARS.
• Later tension: 董建華逝世：「愛國者元老」的香港人生 argues these policies also buried seeds for later sharper Hong Kong-mainland conflict.
• Legal layer: 董建華逝世：「愛國者元老」的香港人生 treats the right-of-abode interpretation as an early institutional reorder.

Counterevidence & Qualifications

The source does not quantify CEPA or tourism benefits, separate mainland-visitor effects by sector, or compare alternative post-SARS recovery tools.

What Changed

• Created the concept to hold the Tung-era integration branch.

Related Concepts

• Right-of-Abode Interpretation Precedent / 居港權釋法先例 - legal-institutional integration precedent.
• Post-Handover Hong Kong Governance / 回歸後香港管治 - broader system where integration occurred.
• Hong Kong Chief Executive Legitimacy / 香港特首認受性 - local mandate issue affected by integration choices.