Hong Kong's passage from British Colony to a "special administrative region" of Hong Kong will be controversial. The British are beginning to realize they need British cooperation and agreement has been reached on funding for the airport development. The biggest problem that China faces is the continuity of the civil service since the people are still fearful of the Communist Party . Equally it is unclear quite what Britain can do to ease the situation. China has said it will dismiss the Legislative Council when it assumes sovereignty and replace it with a provisional legislature. China 's supporters in the colony claim that Governor Mr Qian Qichen 's policy to repeal some of the more repressive legislation will make it harder to govern.
Hong Kong's passage from British Colony to a "special administrative region" of Hong Kong will be controversial. The British are beginning to realize they need British cooperation and agreement has been reached on funding for the airport development. The biggest problem that China faces is the continuity of the civil service since the people are still fearful of the Communist Party . China has said it will dismiss the Legislative Council when it assumes sovereignty and replace it with a provisional legislature. China 's supporters in the colony claim that Governor Mr Qian Qichen 's policy to repeal some of the more repressive legislation will make it harder to govern.