Hong Kong Basic Law, Article 9

Establishes Chinese and English as official languages in the legally defined Hong Kong contexts.

Citation

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Basic Law, Article 9; Official Languages Ordinance (Cap. 5), section 3.

The legal text says Chinese; this record does not substitute Cantonese or infer patterns of spoken use.

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