20 12 Hong Kong people currently have a population of 7 million, of which how many are indigenous inhabitants?

The indigenous inhabitants of Hong Kong are a very special kind of Hong Kong residents. It originated from the fact that when the British "leased" the territory south of Shenzhen River (hereinafter referred to as "New Territories"), it was resisted to some extent by foreigners. 1898 When Britain leased the "New Territories" in 1999, there were about 654.38+million local residents. They don't want to be ruled by Britain, and they don't want to organize armed resistance. Although defeated by the British, in order to appease the people, the British allowed them to keep their traditions, or admitted that they and their descendants were aborigines. Male aborigines will get certain preferential policies, such as owning ancestral land and building their own houses according to the number of men. At present, there are about 800,000 indigenous people, but more than half of them have emigrated overseas. Indigenous inhabitants can be roughly divided into two categories: "locals" and "Hakkas".

It is worth noting that when the British occupied Hong Kong Island and ceded the Kowloon Peninsula, the residents living in some villages in Hong Kong and Kowloon at that time did not obtain the status of "indigenous inhabitants", although those villages may have been established before some villages in the New Territories. The main reason may be that they did not resist and did not fight for their own interests.