Glory of a lifetime: Chinese military flag-bearer remembers handover day in Hong Kong

On the wet, stormy night of June 30, 1997, Cai Chengwen, along with 508 other soldiers, arrived in Hong Kong hours ahead of the handover as part of the first contingent of Chinese troops. He had been selected to be one of three flag-bearers to raise the national flag in the then headquarters of the British Army in Tamar.