back to or back in
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Welcome to the forum, Mahbubul Haque.
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Back to will also be correct, but in a different construction:
I will go/come back to Hong Kong next Monday.
Here, you have a verb of movement (go/come), in which case you use the preposition to; if it's a form of the verb to be, then you use the preposition in.
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