War & the Refugee City · event 9 of 9

1979

The MTR opens. The first line runs in Kowloon. Across the border the same year, Shenzhen is designated a special economic zone.

The War & the Refugee City era

  1. 25 December 1941
  2. 1945
  3. 1949
  4. 25 December 1953
  5. 1966
  6. 1967
  7. 1972
  8. 1974
  9. 1979

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