Ching Cheung Road (), part of the Route 7, is a

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New Kowloon New Kowloon is an area in Hong Kong, bounded in the south by Boundary Street, and in the north by the ranges of the Eagle's Nest, Beacon Hill, Lion Rock, Tate's Cairn and Kowloon Peak. It covers the present-day Kwun Tong District and Wong Tai ...

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linking

Lung Cheung Road Lung Cheung Road () is a major road in New Kowloon, Hong Kong. It forms part of Route 7 (Hong Kong), Route 7 linking Kwun Tong Road at Ngau Chi Wan and Ching Cheung Road near Tai Wo Ping. It is a dual 3-lane carriageway running in the east-west ...

and

Tai Po Road Tai Po Road is the second longest road in Hong Kong (after Castle Peak Road). It spans from Sham Shui Po in Kowloon to Tai Po in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Initially, the road was named Frontier Road. Location The road begins at Natha ...

near Tai Wo Ping and Kwai Chung Road of

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near

Lai Chi Kok Lai Chi Kok is a neighbourhood in Kowloon, Hong Kong, east of Kwai Chung and west of Cheung Sha Wan. Mei Foo Sun Chuen is the largest housing estate in the area and also the largest in Hong Kong with 99 blocks. Administratively, it belongs ...

, varying between 2+2 lanes and 3+4 lanes for its length. This road was named in honour of Sir

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, the

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when it was finished, and the road's name was derived from the connection of his Chinese name () and the proverb “” (

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: ''lun4 zi2 cing4 coeng4'').

Kwun Tong Kwun Tong is an area in the Kwun Tong District of Hong Kong, situated at the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula, and its boundary stretches from Lion Rock in the north to Lei Yue Mun in the south, and from the winding paths of Kowl ...

(connected by

and Kwun Tong Road) in eastern New Kowloon was the main manufacturing centre of Hong Kong during

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. To provide a more efficient link to the

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s near

Kwai Chung Kwai Chung is an urban area within Tsuen Wan New Town in the New Territories of Hong Kong. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing District District of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a pop ...

and other industrial areas in western New Kowloon, two roads were built along the hillside in the north of developed New Kowloon. Ching Cheung Road is the western section of the route. In 1997 it was closed for three weeks because of a major landslip during the passage of Severe Tropical Storm Victor across the territory. There are three major junctions on this road, namely Kwai Chung Road, Butterfly Valley and

. The stretch of the road between St Raphael's Catholic Cemetery and Lai Wan Road forms the boundary between Sham Shui Po and Kwai Chung districts.https://www.eac.hk/pdf/distco/dc2000f.pdf https://www.eac.hk/en/distco/report_2a.htm

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