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The fact that I decided to set up a gallery for Hong Kong among countries, it is not a mistake. Traveling to Hong Kong (2013) you do not need a visa. But if you feel like going shopping to neighboring Chinese cities it means going abroad, and you need to be in possession of a visa. Passport control and all formalities – like at the national borders. Crossing the border (barbed wires, high walls) recalls going through all the formalities at the border checkpoint between East and West Berlin. Regardless of the memories of our neighbors’ history, there are much more differences. Hong Kong has its own independent currency – the Hong Kong dollar (HKD) while in China they have the Chinese yuan (CNY). In China the traffic drives on the right-hand side of the road, in Hong Kong there is left-hand traffic. Other differences: economic, cultural, could be probably multiplied, but there is no time nor place for it right now. The fact is that Hong Kong administratively belongs to China, but its autonomy is so significant that I decided to treat separately that city-state.
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