After several years of construction, the subway from Hung Hom to Tin Shui Wai was finally put into operation on September 15. The opening of the subway has shortened the time from Tin Shui Wai to the city, and has greatly promoted the development of Tin Shui Wai.
Today's Tin Shui Wai is no longer what it was ten years ago. It is home to the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Flight Attendant College, the Xiangjiang University of Communication and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. The total number of students and faculty at the universities here has exceeded 50,000.
At the same time, Tin Shui Wai has also become the high-tech industry development center and electronics industry manufacturing center in Xiangjiang. It is also the entertainment and retail sub-center of Xiangjiang.
At present, the population of Tin Shui Wai and its surrounding areas has exceeded 800,000, and I believe it will exceed one million soon.
Through a series of policies implemented by the Xiangjiang government, the inflow of people into Xiangjiang has slowed down in recent years. As of last year, the registered population in Xiangjiang was as low as 5.72 million.
Among these five million people, the population living on Xiangjiang Island and Kowloon Peninsula is close to 4 million. This does not include the floating population. Even though Xiangjiang is currently building a number of new towns to share the pressure on Xiangjiang Island and Kowloon Peninsula, the current results are
It's not very good either.
This aspect still needs time to advance. On the one hand, transportation, education, and medical equipment need to keep up. On the other hand, major new towns still need to have more jobs, so that the pressure on the city center can be effectively alleviated.
In recent years, the pressure on the city center has been reduced a lot. The registered population in the city center has not increased much in the past two years. The increase in the number of people in the past few years has been mainly absorbed by Tin Shui Wai and even Yuen Long areas.
Now Tseung Kwan O is exerting its efforts. After this area is built up, the pressure in the urban area will be relieved to a certain extent. For example, TVB and ATV will be moved here.
However, with the increase in the number of universities in Hong Kong, more students are studying in Hong Kong. In the future, the increase in population will make the population in Hong Kong even larger. Tin Shui Wai and Tseung Kwan O alone are still not enough. Hong Kong also needs more satellite cities to bear the pressure of the city center.
, only in this way can the economic development of Xiangjiang be better, and the living and living conditions of citizens be better.
Many residential houses on the Kowloon Peninsula are very small, making it very inconvenient for a larger family. How to improve the conditions in this area is also a key task of the Hong Kong government now.
Moreover, what is more difficult for the Xiangjiang government now is the 50-hectare limit. It has become impossible for them to plan more satellite cities at once.
The current annual quota is only insufficient for Yuen Long, Tseung Kwan O, and the urban area. Where is there any excess quota for the development of the third satellite city?
However, the Xiangjiang government is still thinking of some ways to speed up the construction of new satellite cities through some modifications.
In the afternoon when the Kwun Tong to Yuen Long subway was opened, Governor Wei Yixin met with Li Guangyu again to discuss the future development of Xiangjiang.
The development of new towns in Tin Shui Wai has matured, and Tseung Kwan O is progressing in an orderly manner. There is no need for the government to worry too much now. What Wei Yixin and Li Guangyu are discussing this time is the development of the third new town.
At present, Wei Yixin's only achievements in Hong Kong are in transportation. The Kwun Tong to Tin Shui Wai subway was owned by the former Governor Youde, including the higher education in Hong Kong. These are all credited to Youde.
He currently only has the Xiangjiang International Airport and the subway from Kwun Tong to Tseung Kwan O which are under construction. He doesn't have much else to offer.
As a relatively ambitious governor, Wei Yixin still hopes that he can do something in Xiangjiang so that he can display his talents in his position.
He never thought that his talents were much inferior to those of MacLehose and Youde. If these two could leave their achievements in Xiangjiang, he would naturally be able to perform some political achievements that would be remembered by the citizens of Xiangjiang.
The reason why Wei Yixin approached Li Guangyu was because currently only Li Guangyu in Xiangjiang had the strength to build a new city and allow these people to stay there.
A new town is not just about building houses. Tin Shui Wai relies on a university town, top hospitals, Heung Kong Science and Technology Park and Lee's Industrial Park. It also has many commercial businesses, including Wheelock Plaza, Xiangyu Comics Theme Park and other facilities.
Provides many jobs.
Tseung Kwan O is basically a replica of Tin Shui Wai. It is also a university town, it is also home to Wheelock Plaza and Star City. In addition, some companies in the Lee Industrial Park that have nothing to do with the electronics industry have relocated here, bringing many employees and jobs.
However, the third satellite city obviously cannot do this. A university city is no longer possible. Xiangjiang is basically saturated with universities at this stage, and there is little point in continuing to establish universities.
Without a university town and without the consumption drive of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of students, it is not so easy to build a new city.
Just like the many new towns originally planned by Heung Kong, only Tin Shui Wai and Tseung Kwan O have been successful so far. The development of other new towns is very slow. The main reason is that they cannot provide so many jobs and cannot retain people. It is impossible to develop rapidly.
It's impossible.
Tin Shui Wai is completely different from Tseung Kwan O. The Lee Consortium has developed transportation, schools, hospitals, and supermarkets. First of all, life is very convenient, and there is no difference from the urban area.
Then there are a lot of jobs, so that people can be retained and they can be employed locally, so that new towns can develop.
Li Guangyu is very supportive of the establishment of satellite cities in Xiangjiang. As long as the number of satellite cities in Xiangjiang increases, the living environment in Xiangjiang can be improved, many conflicts can be alleviated in the future, and the economy of Xiangjiang can develop better.
He said aloud: "Governor, I personally strongly support the construction of several sub-center satellite cities in Xiangjiang to relieve the pressure on the city center of Xiangjiang. I just don't know what the Governor's plan is for the specific construction?"
"I plan to build two new sub-centers in Fanling Sheung Shui and Sham Shui Po districts in the northern district to reduce the pressure on Xiangjiang Island, Yau Tsim Mong, Kwun Tong and other places."
The reason why Wei Yixin chose Sham Shui Po, which also belongs to the Kowloon Peninsula, this time is mainly because this is where the factories of Xiangjiang garment and textile enterprises are located. Now most of these factories have moved north to Pengcheng. Now the economic development here is very difficult and it can provide jobs.
There are also very few positions, and he hopes to make some improvements.
And there are some foundations here. Xiangjiang City University is in Sham Shui Po. There are many factories here. Li Guangyu and his allies can buy them. In this way, they can not occupy the 50 hectare quota. They only need to change the land use. This will
Their government is very easy to operate.
Sham Shui Po is one of the five districts in Kowloon. It is very close to Xiangjiang Island, Yau Tsim Mong, Kwun Tong, and Kowloon City. When developed here, it can better share the population pressure of several major districts.
Even if Sham Shui Po provides fewer jobs, with Heung Kong Island and Yau Tsim Mong, and Kowloon City making up for it, it can drive development here.
Li Guangyu said: "Sham Shui Po is easier to handle. Now our Hengyu Supermarket Group is building its headquarters here. In the future, this will be the headquarters of Hengyu, 7-11, and several major retail supermarkets in Selangor.
I can also build large shopping malls by acquiring some vacant factories, and I can also build Hongmei Clothing Wholesale City here, but I'm afraid it will be difficult to implement in Sheung Shui, Fanling."
Li Guangyu Hengyu Building uses the land of his former garment factory here. When he took over the garment factory, the land occupied a considerable part of the assets. For development here, you can acquire vacant factory land or buy the building.
It was demolished and rebuilt. There is no such condition in Fanling Sheung Shui.
The current development of Sham Shui Po is very difficult. With the relocation of a large number of garment factories and textile factories to Pengcheng, more than 70,000 jobs have been lost here, which has also caused the citizens here to live in a difficult situation.
You must know that many of them have been working in the garment industry for a long time. They have been working for decades. Now their jobs are gone. It is not easy to find a new job.