Kwai Tsing District Council Election 2003

Kwai Chung is an urban area within

Tsuen Wan New Town Tsuen Wan New Town is a new town in Hong Kong. It spans Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and the eastern part of Tsing Yi Island. Traditionally, the administrative officials of Tsuen Wan managed the area of Tsuen Wan proper, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi Is ...

in the

New Territories The New Territories (N.T., Traditional Chinese characters, Chinese: ) is one of the three areas of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of H ...

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

. Together with Tsing Yi Island, it is part of the Kwai Tsing

District A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...

. It is also part of

. In 2000, it had a population of 287,000. Its area is 9.93 km². Areas within Kwai Chung include:

Kwai Fong Kwai Fong is an area of Kwai Chung Town, Kwai Tsing District, Hong Kong. Location The mainly residential area extends to Kwai Hing () in the north, Lai King in the south, Tsing Yi South Bridge, Tsing Yi Bridge to the west, and Tai Lin Pai ...

Kwai Hing Kwai Hing is an area of Kwai Chung Town, Hong Kong. The mainly residential area extends to North Kwai Chung in the north and east, Kwai Fong in the south, and Kwai Chung Estate to the west. It is part of the reclamation of Gin Drinkers Bay ...

Lai King Lai King, or Lai King Hill, is the colloquial name for a residential area including a number of private housing and public housing estates, located on Mo Shek Shan (), east of Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is centred on Lai King Esta ...

Tai Wo Hau Tai Wo Hau is a place in Tsuen Wan across Tsuen Wan District and Kwai Tsing District. Its area mainly includes Tai Wo Hau Estate, Kwai Yin Court, Kwai Yung Court, and private buildings along Texaco Road. It also includes Kwok Shui Road (the ...

. Kwai Chung is the site of part of the container port of Hong Kong.

Origin of the name

In earlier times Kwai Chung was called Kwai Chung Tsai (). Kwai Chung was a

stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...

(Chung) that emptied into

Gin Drinkers Bay 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 of Hong Kong. It is also part of Tsuen Wan New Town. In 2000, it had a population ...

(). The whole bay was reclaimed for land and the stream is no longer visible.

Divisions

Traditionally, Kwai Chung is divided into Sheung Kwai Chung (), and Ha Kwai Chung (). Administratively, the former is called

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

, and the latter South Kwai Chung. Sheung Kwai Chung, Chung Kwai Chung Village () and Ha Kwai Chung Village () are recognized villages under the

Small House Policy The Small House Policy (SHP, ) was introduced in 1972 in Hong Kong. The objective was to improve the then prevailing low standard of housing in the rural areas of the New Territories. The policy allows an indigenous male villager who is 18 ye ...

Economy

Kwai Chung is the home of the principal commercial cargo handling area of

, the Kwai Chung Container Terminal, one of the largest and busiest port facilities in the world. The main commercial port was relocated here from

Yau Ma Tei Yau Ma Tei is an area in the Yau Tsim Mong District in the south of the Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong. Name ''Yau Ma Tei'' is a phonetic transliteration of the name (originally written as ) in Cantonese. It can also be spelt as Yaumatei, Y ...

in the 1980s, in preparation for the

West Kowloon Reclamation West Kowloon (), named after West Kowloon Reclamation Project as a part of Airport Core Programme, is the western part of Kowloon Peninsula in Hong Kong, situated within the Yau Tsim Mong District and Sham Shui Po District. The reclamat ...

, which has left the original waterfront of Yau Ma Tei almost half a mile inland. The area has the head office of

Kerry Logistics KLN Logistics Group Limited (KLN), formerly Kerry Logistics, is a listed company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Hang Seng Corporate Sustainability Benchmark Index. KLN is an Asia-based, global 3PL with a global pres ...

Education

* Lutheran School for the Deaf is in Kwai Chung. * S.T.F.A. Lee Shau Kee College Sheung Kwai Chung and Chung Kwai Chung (Upper and Central Kwai Chung) are in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 64, which includes multiple aided schools (schools operated independently of the government but funded with government money); none of the schools in the net are government schools. Ha Kwai Chung (Lower Kwai Chung) is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 65, which includes multiple aided schools; none of the schools in the net are government schools.

References

External links

Satellite view of the container port in Kwai Chung

Delineation of area of existing village Sheung Kwai Chung (Tsuen Wan) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)

Delineation of area of existing village Chung Kwai Chung (Tsuen Wan) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)

Delineation of area of existing village Ha Kwai Chung (Tsuen Wan) for election of resident representative (2019 to 2022)
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