In 1997, when Hong Kong was returned to China after 150 years of British colonial rule, the
University of Hong Kong surveyed local residents about how they defined themselves.
That year the share of respondents identifying as “Chinese”?as opposed to “Hongkonger”
or “Mixed identity”?was about one in five; over the next decade this figure rose to more than one in three.
Since 2006, however, it has fallen steadily.
In June, fewer than one in ten said they were exclusively Chinese, a historic low.
This transformation has been most evident among young people.
Fully three-quarters of 18- to 29-year-old residents of the territory identify as Hongkongers, twice the share that did so in 2006.
The data show that the younger the respondents, the more negative their sentiments towards mainland China.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2019/08/26/almost-nobody-in-hong-kong-under-30-identifies-as-chinese
