Terminology
The vast majority of Hong Kong Chinese have ancestral roots from Guangdong Province in Mainland China. After all, the territory had experienced a great exodus of people in the years leading up to the handover, and yet migration from Mainland China in recent years have brought about migrants who would prefer to refer themselves as Chinese. Many locals however simply refer themselves as Hong Kong people (Hèung Góng Yàhn).
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