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Mr Wang Deyan (second from left), President of the Bank of China, and Mr Zhou Nan (centre), Director of the New China News Agency, perform the ribbon-cutting ceremony which marks the opening of the Bank of China Tower in 1990. Photo: SCMP

On This Day | Hong Kong’s iconic Bank of China Tower opens in 1990 – SCMP archive

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Acrimony set aside at Tower festivities By Goeffrey Crothall This article was first published on May 18, 1990 Leaders of politics, finance and commerce from Hongkong and China converged on No 1 Garden Road last night to celebrate the official opening of the territory’s tallest building, the Bank of China Tower. The acrimony and terse…