The Impacts of Integration with Mainland China on Hong Kong's Social Development.

This paper discusses the impact of integration with Mainland China on Hong Kong's social development and proposes a class-based argument against the prevailing ethnicity-based argument to explain the problems of social development arising from integration. It argues that a certain class across the boundary has benefited greatly from the economic integration while leaving all the negative externalities unattended. This paper raises a policy question of how to establish a crossboundary redistribution mechanism to deal with this new transboundary class issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]