june 30th, 1997                   monday  fine

　　      on the stroke of midnight, as july 1st, 1997 begins, hong kong will return to its home. the whole nation is celebrating the return in different ways. all my family sat before tv, watching the hong kong handover ceremony. when i saw the chinese national flag rising and chinese leader,

　　jiang zemin making a speech, i was deeply moved.

　　     as we all know, hong kong was originally a part of china in history.but after the opium war, the british imperialists stole it from the qing government and made it a separate colony of britain. now our country is becoming politically and economically powerful day by day. this is why hong kong can return to china today. i' m determined to study hard and make contributions to our country's development in the future.