The Drafting Materials database houses a collection of almost 900 documents prepared or used by various official bodies and individuals from 1985 to 1990, when the Basic Law was drafted until promulgation, and from 1990 to 1997, when preparations were made for the resumption of sovereignty. The collection was assembled and scanned from documents publicly available in Hong Kong. The materials are mostly in the Chinese language, although some English materials are available. The Search function allows full-text searching of the contents and meta-data of each document, and also searching in the title, author and document number fields. Advanced searching can narrow the pool of documents to be searched by official body, document type, language, meeting date and/or document date. Users can also Browse the database by author, date, official body and draft versions of the Basic Law. Search results appear in chronological order by document date.
Document Number: BL0084
1988-04-01
Document Date: 1988 04 01 - 1988 04 01
Document Number: BL0103
1989-02-01
Document Date: 1989 02 01 - 1989 02 01
Document Number: BL0114
1989-01-14
Meeting Date: 1989 01 09 - 1989 01 15
Document Date: 1989 01 14 - 1989 01 14
Document Number: BL0062
1987-12-01
Document Date: 1987 12 01 - 1987 12 01
Document Number: BL0068
1987-12-12
Meeting Date: 1987 12 12 - 1987 12 16
Document Number: BL0061
1987-12-01
Document Date: 1987 12 01 - 1987 12 01
Document Number: BL0086
1988-04-01
Document Date: 1988 04 01 - 1988 04 01
Document Number: BL0085
1988-04-01
Document Date: 1988 04 01 - 1988 04 01
Document Number: BL0102
1989-02-01
Document Date: 1989 02 01 - 1989 02 01
Document Number: BL0083
1988-04-01
Document Date: 1988 04 01 - 1988 04 01
Document Number: BL0091
1988-04-28
Meeting Date: 1988 04 24 - 1988 04 28
Document Date: 1988 04 28 - 1988 04 28
Document Number: BL0060
1987-02-01
Document Date: 1987 02 01 - 1987 02 01
Document Number: BL0078
1987-12-12
Meeting Date: 1987 12 12 - 1987 12 16
Document Number: BL0082
1988-03-01
Document Date: 1988 03 01 - 1988 03 01
Document Number: BL0006
1986-04-18
Meeting Date: 1986 04 18 - 1986 04 22
Document Number: BL0089
1988-04-24
Meeting Date: 1988 04 24 - 1988 04 28
Document Number: BL0007
1986-04-18
Meeting Date: 1986 04 18 - 1986 04 22
Document Number: BL0133
1990-02-16
Meeting Date: 1990 02 13 - 1990 02 17
Document Date: 1990 02 16 - 1990 02 16