Rural committee () is a body representing the welfare of
indigenous residents in the
New Territories
The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...
of
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...
. The chairman of each rural committee is the representative in the
Heung Yee Kuk
The Heung Yee Kuk, officially the Heung Yee Kuk N.T., is a statutory advisory body representing establishment interests in the New Territories, Hong Kong. The council is a powerful organisation comprising heads of rural committees which repre ...
, and is ''
ex officio'' member of a
district council District council may refer to:
*A branch of local government in the United Kingdom:
**Supervising one of the Districts of England:
***A Metropolitan borough
***A Non-metropolitan district
***A Unitary authority
**Supervising one of the Principal ...
.
List of Rural Committees
There are 27 Rural Committees in total.
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Cheung Chau Rural Committee Cheung is a Cantonese romanization of several Chinese surnames, including the one written as in Traditional characters and in Simplified characters ( Jyutping: Zoeng1; Pinyin: '' Zhāng''; Wade–Giles: Chang, Vietnamese: Trương), and the ...
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Fanling District Rural Committee
Fanling ( zh, t=粉嶺; also spelled Fan Ling or Fan Leng) is a town in the New Territories East of Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the North District. Fanling Town is the main settlement of the Fanling area. The name Fanling i ...
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Ha Tsuen Rural Committee
Ha may refer to:
Agencies and organizations
* Health authority
* Hells Angels Motorcycle Club
* Highways Agency (now ''National Highways''), UK government body maintaining England's major roads
* Homelessness Australia, peak body organisation ...
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Hang Hau Rural Committee
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Lamma Island (North) Rural Committee
Lamma Island, also known as Y Island or Pok Liu Chau or simply Pok Liu, is the third largest island in Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Islands District.
Name
Lamma Island was named Lamma only because of a chart reading error by ...
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Lamma Island (South) Rural Committee
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Kam Tin Rural Committee
Kaam ( Gurmukhi: ਕਾਮ ''Kāma'') in common usage, the term stands for 'excessive passion for sexual pleasure' and it is in this sense that it is considered to be an evil in Sikhism.
In Sikhism it is believed that Kaam can be overcom ...
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Ma Wan Rural Committee
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Mui Wo Rural Committee
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Pat Heung Rural Committee
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Peng Chau Rural Committee
Peng may refer to:
* Peng (surname) (彭), a Chinese name
* Peng (state) (大彭), a state during the late Shang dynasty
* Peng (mythology) (鵬), a legendary Chinese creature
* ''Peng!'', 1992 album by Stereolab
* ''PENG!'', a 2005 comic
* P.Eng. ...
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Ping Shan Rural Committee
Ping may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional characters
* Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933
* Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom
* Ping, a c ...
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Sai Kung North Rural Committee
Sai or SAI may refer to:
Companies
* Science Applications Incorporated, original name of Leidos
* ICAO designator for Shaheen Air, a Pakistani airline
* Skandinavisk Aero Industri, a former Danish aeroplane manufacturer
* Software Architects, In ...
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Sai Kung Rural Committee
Sai or SAI may refer to:
Companies
* Science Applications Incorporated, original name of Leidos
* ICAO designator for Shaheen Air, a Pakistani airline
* Skandinavisk Aero Industri, a former Danish aeroplane manufacturer
* Software Architects, Inc ...
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San Tin Rural Committee
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Sha Tau Kok District Rural Committee
Sha or SHA may refer to:
Places
* Sha County, Fujian, China
* Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, (IATA code)
* Sia, Cyprus, also spelled ''Sha''
* Sagamihara Housing Area, an army installation in Japan
* Vehicle registration plates in th ...
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Sha Tin Rural Committee
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Shap Pat Heung Rural Committee
Shap is a linear village and civil parish located among fells and isolated dales in Eden district, Cumbria, England, in the historic county of Westmorland. The parish had a population of 1,221 in 2001, increasing slightly to 1,264 at the 2011 ...
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Sheung Shui District Rural Committee Sheung may refer to:
*Sheung (surname), Cantonese language, Cantonese romanization of Chinese, romanization of various Chinese surnames
**Kiki Sheung, Hong Kong TVB actress
*Lam Sheung Yee (1934–2009), former football (soccer) defender, coach and ...
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South Lantao Rural Committee
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...
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Ta Kwu Ling District Rural Committee
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Tai O Rural Committee
Tai or TAI may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Tai (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain
*Tai Fraiser, a fictional character in the 1995 film ''Clueless''
*Tai Kamiya, a fictional character in ''Digimon''
Businesses and organisations ...
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Tai Po Rural Committee
Tai or TAI may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*Tai (comics) a fictional Marvel Comics supervillain
*Tai Fraiser, a fictional character in the 1995 film ''Clueless''
*Tai Kamiya, a fictional character in ''Digimon''
Businesses and organisations ...
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Tsing Yi Rural Committee
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Tuen Mun Rural Committee
The Tuen Mun Rural Committee (, TMRC) is a rural committee in Hong Kong. It was founded by rural leader Chan Yat-sen in 1953 with representatives from 29 villages in Tuen Mun. Today the rural committee consisted of 36 villages and 69 village re ...
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Tung Chung Rural Committee
Tung may refer to:
People
* Madison Tung, a U.S. Air Force Officer, wrestler, and Rhodes Scholar
* Ho-Pin Tung, a dutch race car driver of Chinese descent.
* The_Summer_I_Turned_Pretty_(TV_series), Lola Tung, an actress known for her acting debut ...
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Tsuen Wan Rural Committee
See also
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Rural Representative elections The Rural Representative elections are the quadrennial elections to elect the rural representatives which consist of the village representatives and kaifong representatives in the New Territories of Hong Kong. The rural representatives are responsi ...
References
Politics of Hong Kong
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