Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory
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The Convention Between Great Britain and China Respecting an Extension of Hong Kong Territory (aka. Second Convention of Peking, Chinese: 展拓香港界址專條) was signed between China (then Qing Dynasty) and the United Kingdom in 1898. Under the convention the territories north of the Boundary Street and south of the Sham Chun River, and the surrounding islands, later known as the "New Territories" were leased to the United Kingdom for 99 years, and became part of the crown colony of Hong Kong.
Much of the land under the convention comprises of the New Territories and remains rural. "New Towns" were developed after the 1950s to encourage Hong Kongers to leave the overcrowding in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.
The governments of the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China (PRC) concluded the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the Question of Hong Kong in 1984, under which the sovereignty of the leased territories, together with Hong Kong Island and Kowloon (south of Boundary Street) ceded under the Treaty of Nanking (1842) and Convention of Peking (1860), was scheduled to be transferred to the PRC on July 1, 1997.zh-yue:展拓香港界址專條 zh:展拓香港界址專條
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