At 23:42, the handover officially began.
After the guards of honor of the two countries entered the venue, buglers from both sides blew their bugles. At 23:46, the leaders of the two countries walked onto the main podium. At 23:56, flag bearers from both sides entered the venue, and the flag-lowering and flag-raising ceremony symbolizing the handover of power of the port city between the two governments began. All Chinese and foreign guests attending the ceremony stood up, and everyone's eyes were focused on the flagpoles erected on the east and west sides in front of the rostrum and the main podium.
At 23:59, the national flags of the United States and Hong Kong were slowly lowered to the sound of the national anthem of the United States. With the lowering of the Union Jack, the century and a half of rule of the United States in Hong Kong came to an end. Everyone in the audience was in tears and solemn.
At midnight on July 1, the exciting and sacred moment arrived. The Chinese national anthem was played. Amid the magnificent and inspiring music, the Chinese national flag and the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region were slowly raised together. The whole audience was boiling!
Countless pairs of eyes were filled with tears of excitement, and the thunderous applause lasted for a long time. All the camera lenses at the scene flashed wildly, recording this sacred and solemn moment.
When the two flags reached their highest point, Su Qingyun finally burst into tears.
She looked at the two flags, and her thoughts suddenly went back to the day when she first came to Hong Kong City in her life.
Those of them who went abroad to participate in the International Mathematics Competition looked at the Union Jack in silence for a long time, all looking forward to the moment when the Chinese flag would be raised here.
And today, they finally got their wish.
This is a grand event for their China and a victory for the cause of world peace and justice. This day will always be worth commemorating and will go down in history.
At the same time, in the capital, in the early morning, everyone was jubilant. Everyone sang the national anthem, shed tears, and ran around to celebrate, celebrating that the territory belonging to the motherland had finally returned to the embrace of the motherland.
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