Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China

• The Special Administrative Region (Chinese特别 行政区/特别 行政区, Pinyin tèbié xíngzhèngqū / i, Yale dak6 bit 6 hang4 jing3 keui1 listen ( Cantonese ) / i, IPA ( Cantonese ) tɐk6pi ː t6 hɐŋ4tsɪŋ3k ʰ ɵy1; engl: Special Administrative Region; Portuguese:. Região administrativa especial? / i ) is a unit of administrative division of the people's Republic of China. There are currently two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao, each with a chief administrator (Chief Executive) as head of government.

Special administrative regions were established on the basis of Article 31 of the Constitution of the People 's Republic of China. This article allows the National People's Congress to establish special administrative regions and equip them with a constitution, a high degree of internal autonomy, its own political and economic system.

The principle of one country, two systems, on which the special administrative regions based, was developed by Deng Xiaoping. In 1984, he explained it in a speech to Hong Kong personalities. A country mean the People's Republic of China and the Special Administrative Region was regarded as a local government under the People's Republic of China. In the same speech, Deng explained the principle of the administration of Hong Kong by Hong Kong. Accordingly, Beijing would not send officials in the Government of the Special Administrative Region, but only deploy troops as a symbol of state sovereignty in the former Crown Colony.

The People's Republic of China, Taiwan has offered the status of a special administrative region in a possible reunification. This, however, does not accept the and polls suggest that this principle is also rejected by the majority of Taiwanese voters.

The special administrative regions, although they are not sovereign states, its own customs and its own trade policy. They are also for himself, members of the WTO.

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