Figures released to day show that it shrank by two point nine % in the last three months of 20 19, compared with the same period of 20 18. A bill allowing extradition of hong kongers to the mainland sparked enormous protests and worries that the mainland would put them down violently. Now a new threat is compounding all these pressures. The corona virus outbreak across the border. So hongkong's economy has been going through a year of trial and tribula onthe trade war clearly hit on cong's major industries. And then on top of that, we had the protests that started in june and have continued even to the present day.