Hong Kong residents are increasingly realizing the dangers of tolerating the advocacy of "independence" for the special administrative region.

This was evident in the rally on Sunday, which unambiguously demonstrated the general public's strong endorsement of the recent interpretation of the Basic Law by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.

In the latest show of their abhorrence for separatism, some 40,000 Hong Kong residents took to the street on Sunday to voice their support for the interpretation of Hong Kong's Basic Law, which makes it clear and explicit that public officers who fail to take the oath of office sincerely and solemnly shall be disqualified, and that those who make a false oath or subsequently engage in acts violating the oath bear a legal responsibility.