全国人民代表大会关于授权全国人民代表大会常务委员会设立香港特
(Adopted at the First Session of the Eighth National People's Congress on March 31, 1993) Having considered the proposal submitted by Guangdong Delegation for the establishment of the Preliminary Working Commission of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the First Session of the Eighth National People's Congress, in accordance with the provisions on establishing within the year 1996 a Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region by the National People's Congress as stipulated in the Decision of the National People's Congress on the Method for the Formation of the First Government and the First Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and seeing that the time for China to resume its exercise of sovereignty over Hong Kong is approaching and there is large amount of work to do to ensure the smooth transition in 1997, decides to authorize the Standing Committee of the Eighth National People's Congress to establish a preliminary working body of the Preparatory Committee for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, which shall start to carry out various relevant preparatory work. |