Visits to China

The Chinese and British governments started a series of negotiations on the future of Hong Kong in 1982 and finally signed the Sino-British Joint Declaration on December 19, 1984. The two-year Sino-British negotiations resulted in lots of concerns and discussion among the people in Hong Kong. Religious freedom was one of the hot topics that the Christian community discussed actively. In August 1984, Rev. Kwok and some Christian leaders prepared the “Manifesto of the Protestant Churches in Hong Kong on Religious Freedom” and sent it to the Chinese government (Folder 23-6). In the following two months, Rev. Kwok joined a group of Christian leaders and a Hong Kong delegation to visit Beijing to discuss with the Chinese government officials their concerns on religious freedom and the future development in Hong Kong (folders 23-4 to 23-5).