Kwun Tong District
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觀塘 區 Kwun Tong District
District Kwun Tong |
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 Location of Kwun Tong District within Hong Kong |
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| Basic data | |
| Country | People's Republic of China |
| Special Administrative Region | Hong Kong |
| surface | 11.3 km² |
| Residents | 648,541 (2016) |
| density | 57,546 inhabitants per km² |
| founding | September 1981 |
| ISO 3166-2 | HK |
| Website | Kwun Tong District Council (en, zh) |
| politics | |
| Chairman | Chan Chung-bun 陳振彬 (as of 2019) |
| Political party | DAB ( 民建聯 ) |
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Coordinates: 22 ° 18 ′ 56 ″ N , 114 ° 13 ′ 29 ″ E
Kwun Tong District ( Chinese 觀塘 區 / 观塘 区 , Pinyin Guāntáng Qū , Jyutping Gun 1 tong 4 keoi 1 - "District Kwun Tong") is one of the 18 districts of Hong Kong . The district is named after the settlement of the same name, Kwun Tong , which today forms a district.
description
Kwun Tong District is located in the eastern part of the Kowloon Peninsula and extends from Kowloon Peak ( 九龍 峰 , mostly 飛鵝 山 ) in the north to the Lei Yue Mun Canal, which separates Hong Kong Island from Kowloon, in the south and southwest. Kwun Tong is separated from the neighboring Sai Kung District by a small, wooded chain of hills 200 to 300 meters high. The north-western boundary is the site of the former Kai Tak Airport .
With an area of 11.27 km², the Kwun Tong District is one of the smaller districts in Hong Kong. The degree of urbanization is very high and the population density of 57,546 people / km² is the highest of any district in Hong Kong. In terms of population, Kwun Tong ranks second among the districts of Hong Kong with 648,541 inhabitants (after Sha Tin District , all figures from 2016). Kwun Tong District consists of different districts. These include Ngau Tau Kok ( 牛頭 角 ), Cha Kwo Ling ( 茶 果嶺 ), Yau Tong ( 油塘 ), Sau Mau Ping ( 秀茂坪 ), Lei Yue Mun ( 鯉魚 門 ), Lam Tin ( 藍田 ) and Kowloon Bay ( 九龍灣 ).
history
The eponymous district Kwun Tong ( 觀塘 , hist. Koon Tong ) was the first location in New Kowloon ( 新 九龍 ) in the 1950s that the Hong Kong government systematically became a satellite city outside of Kowloon and Hong Kong, ie an early " New Town ", was developed. Large parts of what is now Kwun Tong District were reclaimed from the sea as part of land reclamation projects in the two decades between 1950 and 1970. In the area of Kwun Tong District, numerous industrial companies and factories settled in the 1950s and 1960s and shaped the image of Kwun Tong as an industrial and commercial district for decades. Since the beginning of the 1980s, as a result of the economic opening policy of the People's Republic of China, many industrial companies migrated to mainland China , where more cost-effective production options existed (for example in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone ). Between 1991 and 1997, the number of people employed in the tertiary sector in Kwun Tong fell from 123,330 to 46,800. In 2011 it was only 11,326 people. In Kwun Tong a structural change gradually set in, which the Hong Kong government actively helped to shape. Artists and small businesses began to move into the old factory buildings, industrial facilities were converted into green spaces, etc. The Hong Kong government set itself the goal of building a second business district (CBD2, Central Business District 2 ) in Kwun Tong next to the Central district on the island of Hong Kong .
particularities
The architecture is characterized by the high-rise buildings typical of Hong Kong. A wide variety of shops and restaurants are now housed in many old factory buildings. On the lake side is the Kwun Tong Promenade ( 觀塘 海濱 公園 , ), a small harbor park that was laid out on an old industrial site and is crossed by an elevated road . The Zero Carbon Building ( 零 碳 天地 , ) is intended to serve as a model for climate-neutral architecture.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welcome message. Kwun Tong District Council website, accessed October 9, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ^ District Highlights. Kwun Tong website, accessed October 9, 2019 .
- ^ Area by District Council (Base on 2017 District Council). Suvery and Mapping Office / Lands Department, accessed October 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Demographic Profiles of Population in the Whole Territory, 2016. Hong Kong Census Bureau, December 8, 2017, accessed October 10, 2019 .
- ^ YK Chan: The Development of New Towns in Hong Kong . In: The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Ed.): Occasional Paper No. 62 . December 1977 (English, pdf; 2.99MB ).
- ↑ Hong Kong Costaline Map 香港 海岸線 地圖. Retrieved October 10, 2019 (English, interactive map of the development of the Hong Kong coastline in the years since 1842).
- ↑ Werner Bendung: The End of "Made in Hong Kong"? - De-Industrialization and Industrial Promotion Policy in Hong Kong . In: Geographica Helvetica . tape 54 , no. 4 , 1999, p. 242-251 ( geogr-helv.net [PDF]).
- ↑ FINAL REPORT: Study on Industrial Heritage of Kowloon East and Its Potential for Public Art / Urban Design (九龍 東 工業 傳統 及 公共 藝術 / 城市 設計 潛力 研究). (pdf) Energizing Kowloon East Office (EKEO), Development Bureau, HKSAR Government, July 2014, accessed on November 6, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Kwun Tong. Hong Kong Tourism Board, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 (Chinese, English).
- ↑ CBD2 envisioned as Hong Kong's first smart city. In: South China Morning Post . Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Kwun Tong Promenade. In: Leasure and Cultural Services Department. January 1, 2019, accessed October 12, 2019 .
