BDTC: British Dependent Territories Citizen
BL: Basic Law
BNO: British National(Overseas)
CCP: Chinese Communist Party
CDA: Critical Discourse Analysis
CE: Chief Executive
CEPA: Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement
CFA: the Court of Final Appeal
CL: Critical Linguistics
CPG: Central People’s Government
DA: Discourse Analysis
HK: Hong Kong
HKSAR: Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
JD: Joint Declaration
NPCSC: Standing Committee of National People's Congress
PA: Policy Address
PRD: Pearl River Delta
PWC: Preliminary Working Committee
SFL: Systemic Functional Linguistics