{
  "id": 6605527,
  "title": "Mainland Chinese pay tribute to Tung Chee-hwa for opening door to Hong Kong",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/mainland-chinese-pay-tribute-to-tung-chee-hwa-for-opening-door-to-6605527",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-10T14:53:21.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post - Hong Kong",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post-hong-kong",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/3367102/mainland-chinese-pay-tribute-tung-chee-hwa-opening-door-hong-kong"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Mainland Chinese have paid tribute to Hong Kong’s first chief executive, the late Tung Chee-hwa, for introducing a solo-travel scheme more than two decades ago that opened the city to millions of travellers and created indelible memories for middle-class families. The Individual Visit Scheme has grown from a handful of cities in Guangdong province in 2003 to its current 59 spanning the country as…",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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