Hong Kong Chinese press unveils protests: Here's what the Chinese press says about the protests in Hong Kong

Key Points

* The CCTV broadcaster, a spokesman for the Chinese government, called a "scapegoat" the theft of the legislature and said it was "condemned by people in all walks of life in Hong Kong," according to a CNBC translation.
* Meanwhile, China Daily, the country's state-run newspaper, has deflected coverage of politics-to-economy incidents, and has reminded readers that Hong Kong's economic integration is essential both for the prosperity and stabilization of the continent as well as for the city.

Hong Kong Chinese press unveils protests

The protests in Hong Kong began to gain momentum in early June and attracted tens of thousands, but it was not mentioned in any Chinese press until Tuesday - a day after a group of protesters became violent and entered in the building of the Legislative Council of the Territory.

Chinese television station CCTV said on Tuesday evening that "some extremists" stormed Hong Kong's legislative building and vandalized it.

CCTV, a spokesman for the Chinese government, said the "rare scene" was "condemned by people from all walks of life in Hong Kong," according to a CNBC translation.

For nearly three weeks, political tensions in Hong Kong have grown as a result of on-and-off protests on an extradition law that would have allowed someone arrested in the city to be sued in mainland China. Since then, the bill has been suspended, but citizens want it to be completely withdrawn.

"If such atrocities are encouraged and condemned, it will violate the rule of law in Hong Kong and will provoke all law-abiding citizens," CCTV said. The broadcaster quotes business and religious communities as violence but did not mention the extradition proposal and why protesters are demonstrating.

Hong Kong was a British colony until 1997, when it became a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China, within a "one country, two systems" framework, with the legal system of the territory independent of the rest of China. Citizens of the Asian Financial Center are concerned that their civil rights are eroded slowly in Beijing.

The protests were largely peaceful. Half a million people have estimated they've been on the streets for democracy on Monday, but the Chinese state press reported that 5000 people gathered at Victoria Park in downtown Hong Kong that morning to celebrate " return to the motherland ".

After the protests turned into violence, the Daily People, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, called violence as an "undisguised challenge" to the country's authority.

China Daily, the British state-run newspaper, has deflected coverage of political and economic incidents, reminding readers that Hong Kong's prosperity and China's rapid pace of growth over the last two decades go hand in hand.

In an editorial Tuesday, he said the best way to deal with Hong Kong was to boost further economic integration with the continent.

"The only way to sustain economic growth and maintain stability (Hong Kong) is to integrate our own development into the nation's global development," he said.