Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying arrives at a news conference which was held as part of the National People's Congress, the country's parliament, in Beijing March 6, 2015. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Hong Kong must consider the rights of mainland Chinese as well as the economic impact of any changes to its visitor policy, Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said on Friday, amid mounting anger in the former British colony against hordes of mainland shoppers.
Hong Kong people fume that mainland tourists crowd them out of malls and buy up all available supplies of daily necessities such as diapers and milk powder. Police have used pepper spray to break up confrontations as locals have cursed mainlanders, shouting at them to go back to China.
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