Sheung Shui

Sheung Shui

Tin Ping Road
Traditional Chinese 上水
Public estates in Sheung Shui
The busy San Hong Street in Shek Wu Hui
Ng Tung River, looking towards Sheung Shui
Siu Hang Tsuen, a village in Sheung Shui
Landmark North

Sheung Shui (Chinese: 上水; Jyutping: soeng5 seoi2) is an area in New Territories, Hong Kong. Sheung Shui Town, a part of this area, is part of the Fanling-Sheung Shui New Town in the North District of Hong Kong. Fanling Town is to its southeast.

History

Shek Wu Hui (石湖墟) used to be the marketplace of the Sheung Shui area, before the development of Sheung Shui Town. Bounded by Lung Sum Avenue (龍琛路), San Fung Avenue and Jockey Club Road, it was the main market in the Sheung Shui area from the 1930s onwards.[1] Today some private residences can be found towering over the old flats in the hui (market). The majority of the buildings still standing were repaired in the 1950s.

Sheung Shui Wai (上水圍), originally lived in by the Liu (廖) clan,[2] is a walled village. The ancestral hall Liu Man Shek Tong (廖萬石堂) in the village is one of the declared monuments of Hong Kong.

The Fung Kai No.1 Secondary School (鳳溪第一中學), located near Sheung Shui Wai and originally established by the Liu clan, is the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, in terms of area covered. More than one turfed football pitch can be found inside the school campus. Because of its green and ample campus, the school used to serve as a scene for local educational television programs.

Housing estates in Sheung Shui Town

Public estates

Home Ownership Scheme Courts

Private estates

Villages in the Sheung Shui area

Shopping centres in Sheung Shui Town

Community facilities in Sheung Shui Town

Public services in Sheung Shui Town

Transport

Sheung Shui Town and the rest of the Sheung Shui area is served by the Sheung Shui Station of the MTR East Rail Line in the Sheung Shui's town centre. This line takes them into Kowloon within 40 minutes, and then onto surrounding areas through connections with other MTR lines.[3]

Many KMB routes and minibus routes serve Sheung Shui. Residents can take buses to other parts of North District, western New Territories (including Yuen Long Town, Tuen Mun new Town and Tsuen Wan new Town), Tai Po newTown, Sha Tin new Town, most parts of Kowloon, parts of northern Hong Kong Island and the Hong Kong International Airport. The KMB bus terminus and the green minibus terminus are located by Landmark North in Sheung Shui Town. Also, a non-schedule red minibus terminus is located at San Hong Street in Sheung Shui Town.

Taxi ranks are located around the town, including outside the MTR station, Landmark North shopping centre and on side roads branching off of San Fung Avenue.

North District Sportsground
Junction between Sheung Shui Centre and North District Town Hall

Cross-border activities

Due to their proximity to the Shenzhen border, towns in the northern parts of Hong Kong, notably Sheung Shui and Yuen Long, have become hubs for parallel traders who have been buying up large quantities of goods, forcing up local prices and disrupting the daily lives local citizens.[4][5] Since 2012, there has been a vertiginous increase in mainland parallel traders arriving in the North District of Hong Kong to re-export infant formula and household products – goods popular with mainlanders – across the border to Shenzhen.[6] Trafficking caused chronic local shortages of milk powder in Hong Kong, forcing the government to impose restrictions on the amount of milk powder exports from Hong Kong.[7]

The first anti-parallel trading protest was started at Sheung Shui in September 2012.[8] As government efforts to limit the adverse impact of mainland trafficking were widely seen as inadequate, so there have been further subsequent protests in towns in the North District including Sheung Shui.[9][10]

See also

References

  1. ↑ North District: Beating the Drum
  2. ↑ A Chinese Lineage Village: Sheung-Shui. Stanford University Press. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-0-8047-0670-4.
  3. ↑ Mass Transit Railway Hong Kong
  4. ↑ "近百名人到上水示威不滿內地水貨客". now.com. 15 September 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2014.
  5. ↑ Ma, Mary (10 February 2015). "Parallel lines of concern need fixing". The Standard
  6. ↑ Jennifer, Ngo "Milk powder supplies still not meeting needs". South China Morning Post. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014
  7. ↑ "Import and Export (General)(Amendment) Regulation 2013 ( with effect from 1 March 2013 ) – Quantity of Powdered Formula for Persons Departing from Hong Kong". "Customs and Excise Department-- The Government of Hong Kong Special Administration Region". 13 March 2013. Retrieved 29 October 2014
  8. ↑ Luk, Eddie (21 September 2012). "Seeing red (white and blue)". The Standard
  9. ↑ Wong, Hilary; Cheng, Kevin (9 March 2015). "Targeting mainlanders ... young and old". The Standard
  10. ↑ "Hong Kong Protests Against Day Trippers as China Eyes Action". Bloomberg L.P.

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Coordinates: 22°30′37″N 114°07′35″E / 22.5102°N 114.1265°E / 22.5102; 114.1265

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