Hong Kong profile - BBC News

1757 - Qing authorities establish the Canton System to regulate foreign trade more strictly. To pay for Chinese commodities like tea, silk and porcelain, British traders sell large amounts of Indian opium to China. Faced with a drug crisis, Qing officials take ever more aggressive actions to halt the opium trade.

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