Hong Kong Economic Times

The Basic Law promises that "one country, two systems" will remain unchanged for 50 years. Whether "one country, two systems" will continue to be implemented after 2047 is a key issue related to the future of Hong Kong. Although the Basic Law does not explicitly state that it must be changed after 50 years, the unresolved "second future issue" is approaching day by day, triggering different imaginations among the people. One extreme advocates "Hong Kong independence" and the implementation of complete autonomy, while the other extreme pursues "one country, one system" and direct jurisdiction by China. Many people believe that both are niche ideas, so we try to identify the social consensus through opinion polls.
Democratic Ideas launched the "One Country, Two Systems Index" on the 20th anniversary of Hong Kong's return to the motherland to regularly track the overview of "One Country, Two Systems" and commissioned the Hong Kong Asia-Pacific Institute of the Chinese University of Hong Kong to conduct random sampling telephone surveys every six months. Since mid-2017, 4 rounds of democratic thinking have been completed. tune. In the latest round of polls in December 2018, two new questions were asked to measure citizens’ attitudes towards the continuation of “one country, two systems” after 2047. The results are shown in Tables 1 and 2.