Editing Wan Chai (section)

===Transfer of sovereignty to China (PRC)===
Wan Chai's [[Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre|HKCEC]] has been home to major political and economic events. It was the site of the [[Hong Kong handover ceremony]] in 1997, in which the last governor of Hong Kong, [[Chris Patten]], formally concluded the British chapter and transferred Hong Kong to [[People's Republic of China|China]]. The [[WTO Ministerial Conference of 2005|WTO Ministerial Conference]] in 2005 was also one of the largest international events hosted in Hong Kong, with delegates from 148 countries participating.

In May 2009, 300 guests and staff members at the Metropark Hotel in Wan Chai were quarantined, suspected of being infected or in contact with the [[Influenza A virus subtype H1N1|H1N1 virus]] during the [[2009 swine flu pandemic|global outbreak of swine flu]]. A 25-year-old Mexican man who had stayed at the hotel was later found to have caught the viral infection. He had traveled to Hong Kong from Mexico via Shanghai.<ref>Cheng, Jonathan; Ye, Juliet; Stein, Peter, [https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB124119134084477477 "Hong Kong Orders Quarantine of Hotel"], Wall Street Journal, 2 May 2009</ref><ref>Dasgupta, Saibal, [https://web.archive.org/web/20121023195232/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2009-05-03/china/28195542_1_swine-fever-mexican-citizens-mexican-foreign-minister "Swine flu scare: China puts 460 in isolation"], [[The Times of India]], 3 May 2009.</ref>