Xin'an has ceased to be a separate…

Xin'an has ceased to be a separate administrative county by the fifth year of Kangxi.

When the new boundaries had been fixed, the inhabitants living outside them had been given notice to move inland, the orders enforced by troops.

As a result, whole communities have been uprooted from their native place, deprived of their means of livelihood and compelled to settle where they can.

The rural people risk their lives if they ignore the government edict to move, or venture back into the prohibited area.

It is recorded that about sixteen thousand persons from Xin'an were driven inland.

What is now the territory of Hong Kong becomes largely wasteland during the ban.