GOLDEN BAUHINIA SQUARE

In front of the HKCEC, on the bay side, is the Expo Promenade, renamed Golden Bauhinia Square in 1997, the year that the Convention Center hosted the ceremony when Hong Kong ceased being a British colony and became a part of China again. It’s easy to see where the name came from: in the center of the square, you can’t miss the six-meter-high gilded statue of Hong Kong’s symbolic flower.

 

Let me leave you with an interesting fact: the bauhinia is the white flower featured in the center of Hong Kong’s flag, which is the same shade of red as the Chinese flag. Inside each petal is a star, adding up to five, just like the 5 stars on the flag of the mother nation.