Tseung Kwan O Photo Gallery

Introduction Tseung Kwan O is the seventh new town in Hong Kong. The Executive Council approved the development of the new town in 1982, with an initial planned population of about 175,000. The Government subsequently decided in 1987 and 1988 to proceed with the Phase II and Phase III developments with the planned population increasing to 325,000 and 445,000 respectively. The current Outline Zoning Plan provides for an ultimate target population of 480,000. Tseung Kwan O is located at the southern part of Sai Kung District in the South East New Territories. The new town is built mainly by reclaiming Tseung Kwan O Bay and formation of platforms on both sides of a long narrow inlet. The first reclamation commenced in 1983 and since then various reclamations had progressively completed to form land for the new town. Tseung Kwan O has been fast expanding since its first population intake in 1988 in the public housing estates in Po Lam and Tsui Lam, turning a small fishing village and ship building industrial area in the 1960s to a major new community of about 340,000 people today. The total development area of Tseung Kwan O is about 1 005 hectares to be implemented over 3 phases.