ABSTRACT
Traditionally, mainlanders were allowed to visit Hong Kong on business visas and with group tours by the designated mainland tour companies. The Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement between mainland and Hong Kong, as an economic recovery package, was signed between China and Hong Kong on 29 June 2003. The global financial downturn hit Hong Kong in mid-2008 when many small-and-medium enterprises went bankrupt and the stock market dramatically declined. In order to reduce the strong opposition, the government strengthened its regulations against the illegal parallel trading in the border town of Sheung Shui and announced the ‘zero delivery quota’ policy for expectant mainland mothers whose husbands are not Hong Kong residents in January 2013. The tourism sector representative should be elected by corporate voting. A series of counter-Chinese influence mobilizations can be found when the government could not properly tackle the negative consequences caused by mainlander tourism.
