1960s in Hong Kong

The economic progress made in the period would categorise Hong Kong as one of Four Asian Tigers along with Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan.

[3] The government pursued an ambitious public education programme, creating over 300,000 new primary school places between 1954 and 1961.

[4] From 6 to 15 December 1969, the first Hong Kong Festival was launched after 7 months of preparation work with HKD $4 million of funding.

The 1960s cinema films were still rooted in a Chinese tradition, though Hong Kong would have one of their first pop culture teen idols, Connie Chan Po-chu.

Demonstrations were held, the red guards would take shape in Hong Kong carrying Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong in their left hands shouting communist slogans.

The riots only came to an end in December 1967 when Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai ordered the leftist groups in Hong Kong to stop.

The severe drought year in 1963 has been attributed to air circulation changes resulting from the March-May eruption of the Agung volcano on the Indonesian island of Bali.

The first post-World War II documentation to provide detailed information about the territory came in 1969 in a guide titled the "Colony Outline Plan".

[7] While many companies were beginning to diversify in the products it manufactures, the entire success of the Hong Kong colony rested on the textile industry.

[7] By 1968, small factories employing fewer than 100 workers accounted for 42 percent of Hong Kong's domestic exports to the UK, amounting to HKD $1.2 billion.

[4] From 1960 to 1965, the executive council tried to revamp the medical system to provide some form of low cost health care directly or indirectly to large sections of the population.

[8] During the beginning of the Vietnam War, the U.S. made Hong Kong a frequent stop for resting troops in the Asian region.

A contract was signed in 1964 when Hong Kong purchased 15,000 gallons of water a day drawn from China's East river.

[9] When political turmoil came to Hong Kong, China turned off the supply periodically and caused water shortages.