February Eve), (Gengshen year, March 21, 1860, the annual rent 500 two "perpetual lease" Kowloon Peninsula.

the South Kowloon Peninsula area of ​​11.1 square kilometers, is located in the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary, is a peninsula extends to the sea, the scope of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula south of this piece of Chinese territory. Here and in Hong Kong, Hong Kong barrier island across the sea, long coveted for the British. October,
1856 British busy while the Qing government repression of the domestic the Taiping peasant uprising, the United France jointly launched the Second Opium War. Defeat Qing repeatedly. March 1858 HMS Calcutta "Captain Hall officially proposed to the Department of the Navy occupy Kowloon recommendations as Hong Kong Island peripheral. In February 1860, the British sent troops in Guangzhou Consul Parkes usurped Kowloon. March 21, Parkes force the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi labor Sogo in Guangzhou signed an agreement today south of Boundary Street, Kowloon Peninsula "perpetual lease" to Britain, the yearly rent of 500 taels. British and French troops invaded Beijing in October 1860, the Qing government and the British and French, respectively, signed the "Treaty of Beijing", "Sino-British Treaty of Beijing (6) provides that the Chinese territory south of the Boundary Street of Kowloon Peninsula was ceded by perpetual lease to "and owned by the British sector in Hong Kong."