Honk kong 's status is dwindling very fast , it is now part of a greater hub of several Chinese Cities that will emerge as 1 big financial hub , it 's status of the years before the handover are gone , as the control of it's institutions is now taken over by China to limit it's growth and distribute it's wealth to other areas in China -
HK used to be the 3rd Financial center in the world -that's gone to Singapore , and one should not forget that it was a relatively very small area , but very dynamic and prosperous at a time when Chinese Cities were still agricultural land