Sheung Shui
Sheung Shui | |||||||||||||||
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Literal meaning | Above the Water | ||||||||||||||
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Sheung Shui (Chinese:
History
[edit]Shek Wu Hui (
Sheung Shui Wai (
The Fung Kai No. 1 Secondary School , 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
[edit]Public estates
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- Choi Yuen Estate (
彩 園 邨) - Tin Ping Estate (
天平 邨) - Tai Ping Estate (
太平 邨) - Ching Ho Estate (
清河 邨) - Cheung Lung Wai Estate (
祥 龍 圍 邨) - Po Shek Wu Estate (
寶石 湖 邨)
Home Ownership Scheme Courts
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- Yuk Po Court (
旭 埔苑) - Choi Po Court (
彩 蒲 苑 ) - On Shing Court (
安 盛 苑 ) - Sunningdale Garden (
順 欣花園 ) - Tsui Lai Garden (
翠 麗 花園 )
Private estates
[edit]- Lung Fung Garden (
龍 豐 花園 ) - Metropolis Plaza (
新都 廣場 ) - Sheung Shui Centre (
上水 中心 ) - Sheung Shui Town Centre (
上水 名 都 ) - Woodland Crest (奕翠
園 ) - Venice Garden (
威 尼 斯花園 ) - Noble Hill (
皇 府 山 ) - Royal Green (
御 皇 庭 ) - Royal Jubilee (
海 禧華庭 ) - On Kwok Villa (
安國 新村 ) - Pearl Vista (
明 珠 華 軒 ) - Glorious Peak (
顯 峰 )
Villages in the Sheung Shui area
[edit]- Hakka Wai (
客 家 圍 )- Tsung Pak Long Tsuen (
松柏 塱村) - Tai Tau Leng (
大頭 嶺 )
- Tsung Pak Long Tsuen (
- Sheung Shui Wai (
上水 圍 )- Wai Loi Tsuen (
圍 內村) - Man Kok Tsuen (
文 閣 村 ) - Ha Pak Tsuen (
下北 村 ) - Sheung Pak Tsuen (
上北 村 ) - Chung Sam Tsuen (
中心 村 ) - Tai Yuen Tsuen (
大元 村 ) - Hing Yan Tsuen (
興 仁 村 ) - Po Sheung Tsuen (莆上
村 ) - Mun Hau Tsuen (
門口 村 )
- Wai Loi Tsuen (
- Fu Tei Au Tsuen (
虎 地 拗 村 ) - Hung Kiu San Tsuen (
紅 橋 新村 ) - Wa Shan Tsuen (
華 山村 ) - Tin Ping Shan Tsuen (
天平 山村 ) - Wu Nga Lok Yeung (
烏鴉 落陽 ) - Shek Wu San Tsuen (
石 湖 新村 ) - Ling Shan Tsuen (
靈山 村 ) - Ng Uk Village (
吳屋 村 ) - Siu Hang Tsuen (
小 坑 村 ) - Siu Hang San Tsuen (
小 坑 新村 ) 新 界 五 大 氏族 The Great Five Clans in New Territories-侯 氏 (HAU)- Ho Sheung Heung (
河上 鄉 ) - Yin Kong Tsuen (
燕 崗村) - Kam Tsin Tsuen (
金錢 村 ) - Ping Kong (
丙 崗)
- Ho Sheung Heung (
Shopping centres in Sheung Shui Town
[edit]- Lung Fung Garden (
龍 豐 花園 ) - Metropolis Plaza (
新都 廣場 ) - Sheung Shui Centre (
上水 中心 ) - Sheung Shui Town Centre (
上水 名 都 ) - Landmark North (
上水 廣場 )
Community facilities in Sheung Shui Town
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- Lung Sum Avenue Sports Centre (
龍 琛路體育館 ) - North District Park (
北 區 公園 ) - North District Sportsground (
北 區 運動 場 ) - North District Town Hall (
北 區 大會 堂 ) - Shek Wu Hui Municipal Services Building (
石 湖 墟市政 大廈 ) - Shek Wu Hui Playground (
石 湖 墟公園 ) - Sheung Shui Public Library (
上水 公共 圖書館 ) - Sheung Shui Swimming Pool (
上水 游泳 池 ) - Tin Ping Sports Centre (
天平 體育館 )
Public services in Sheung Shui Town
[edit]- North District Hospital (
北 區 醫院 ) - Shek Wu Hui Jockey Club Clinic (
石 湖 墟賽馬 會 診 所 ) - Shek Wu Hui Post Office (
石 湖 墟郵政局 ) - Sheung Shui Fire Station (
上水 消防局 ) - Sheung Shui Library
Schools in Sheung Shui Town
[edit]- Hong Kong Taoist Association Tang Hin Memorial Secondary School (
香港 道教 聯合 會 鄧顯紀 念 中學 ) - Sheung Shui Government Secondary School (
上水 官立 中學 ) - Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kap Yan Directors' College (
東 華 三院甲寅年總理中學)
Sheung Shui is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 80. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government schools are in this net.[3]
Transport
[edit]Sheung Shui Town and the rest of the Sheung Shui area is served by the Sheung Shui station of the 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.[4]
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. Ma Sik Road is a road connecting Sheung Shui and Fanling in Hong Kong. It is an U-shaped road.
Cross-border activities
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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 of local citizens.[5][6] 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.[7] 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.[8]
The first anti-parallel trading protest was started at Sheung Shui in September 2012.[9] 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.[10][11]
Climate
[edit]Climate data for Sheung Shui (2005–2020) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 20.1 (68.2) |
21.0 (69.8) |
23.2 (73.8) |
26.7 (80.1) |
30.1 (86.2) |
31.8 (89.2) |
33.1 (91.6) |
32.9 (91.2) |
32.5 (90.5) |
30.0 (86.0) |
26.2 (79.2) |
21.6 (70.9) |
27.4 (81.4) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 15.4 (59.7) |
16.8 (62.2) |
19.3 (66.7) |
22.8 (73.0) |
26.3 (79.3) |
28.1 (82.6) |
28.9 (84.0) |
28.5 (83.3) |
27.9 (82.2) |
25.4 (77.7) |
21.6 (70.9) |
16.8 (62.2) |
23.2 (73.7) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | 12.2 (54.0) |
13.9 (57.0) |
16.4 (61.5) |
19.9 (67.8) |
23.6 (74.5) |
25.5 (77.9) |
25.9 (78.6) |
25.5 (77.9) |
24.9 (76.8) |
22.3 (72.1) |
18.5 (65.3) |
13.5 (56.3) |
20.2 (68.3) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 37.8 (1.49) |
29.8 (1.17) |
67.5 (2.66) |
141.6 (5.57) |
286.4 (11.28) |
415.5 (16.36) |
320.2 (12.61) |
364.2 (14.34) |
232.9 (9.17) |
88.5 (3.48) |
39.9 (1.57) |
26.5 (1.04) |
2,050.8 (80.74) |
Average relative humidity (%) | 73.1 | 76.6 | 79.0 | 80.5 | 81.7 | 83.6 | 81.7 | 82.8 | 79.4 | 73.3 | 73.4 | 68.7 | 77.8 |
Source: Hong Kong Observatory[12] |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ North District: Beating the Drum Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ A Chinese Lineage Village: Sheung-Shui. Stanford University Press. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-0-8047-0670-4.
- ^ "POA School Net 80" (PDF). Education Bureau. Retrieved 2022-09-12.
- ^ Mass Transit Railway Hong Kong
- ^ "
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. - ^ Ma, Mary (10 February 2015). "Parallel lines of concern need fixing". The Standard
- ^ Jennifer, Ngo "Milk powder supplies still not meeting needs". South China Morning Post. 24 January 2014. Retrieved 29 October 2014
- ^ "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
- ^ Luk, Eddie (21 September 2012). "Seeing red (white and blue)" Archived 2015-03-11 at archive.today. The Standard
- ^ Wong, Hilary; Cheng, Kevin (9 March 2015). "Targeting mainlanders ... young and old" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. The Standard
- ^ "Hong Kong Protests Against Day Trippers as China Eyes Action". Bloomberg L.P.
- ^ "Monthly Data for Single Element". Hong Kong Observatory. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
- 2007. 2007 Hong Kong Map. Easy Finder Ltd. ISBN 962-8751-15-8
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