Tung Chung New Town
東涌新市鎮 | |
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| Nickname: Tung Chung | |
| Country |  People's Republic of China |
| Special administrative region |  Hong Kong |
| District | Islands District |
| Area | |
| • City | 25 km2 (10 sq mi) |
| Population (2018) | |
| • City | 130,000 |
| • Density | 9,639/km2 (24,960/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 78,000 |
| Website | www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/island/tc |
| Mean solar time UTC+08 | |
| North Lantau New Town | |||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 北大嶼山新市鎮 | ||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 北大屿山新市镇 | ||||||||||||
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North Lantau New Town is the newest of the nine new towns in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, located on the northern coast of the Lantau Island in the New Territories. It covers Tung Chung, Tai Ho Wan, Siu Ho Wan, other parts of northeast Lantau Island, and the reclaimed land along the coast between them.[1] It is the only new town in the Islands District and the youngest new town in Hong Kong. As the commercial, residential and community facilities in the New Town are concentrated in Tung Chung, it has been renamed Tung Chung New Town in recent official government documents.[2]
The development of North Lantau was first proposed in the late 1970s when the government proposed to build a new airport at Chek Lap Kok. In the North Lantau Development Investigation Study published in 1983, the idea of building a new town of nearly 300,000 people in Tung Chung and Tai Ho along the coast of North Lantau was proposed.[3]
- ^ Hong Kong Annual Report 1997 - Airport Core Programme (香港年報1997－機場核心計劃)
- ^ "土木工程拓展署東涌新市鎮簡介". Archived from the original on 9 November 2019. Retrieved 21 September 2020.
- ^ "掠奪大嶼解構包 大嶼發展全面睇". 守護大嶼聯盟. Archived from the original on 7 March 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.