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Exodus to Hong Kong (Chinese: 逃港), refer to two million of Chinese refugees who attempted to night-swim across the Bamboo Curtain to the capitalist British Hong Kong from 1949 to the 1980s as a haven of the Maoist China.[1][2] While one million succeed, another one million got arrested en route, drowned, eaten by sharks, shot by Chinese gunboats or got repatriated.[3]
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Among the 5.1 million population of Hong Kong in 1980, at least a million were the exodused.[3] Chinese official statistics only confirm 560,000 people left, "Yet even accepting the official figures, they compare unfavorably with 5,043 East Germans climbing the Berlin Wall or tens of thousands of North Koreans crossing the Yalu River".[4]