Through the wealth life

Chapter 1225 Xiangjiang Satellite City

After several years of construction, the subway from Hung Hom to Tin Shui Wai was finally put into operation on September 9. The opening of the subway shortened the time from Tin Shui Wai to the urban area, which greatly promoted the development of Tin Shui Wai.

Today’s Tianshuiwei is no longer what it was ten years ago. There are Hong Kong Chinese University, Hong Kong Flight Attendant College, Hong Kong Communication University and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At present, the total number of students and faculty members here has exceeded 5.

At the same time, Tin Shui Wai has also become the development center of high-tech industries in Hong Kong and the manufacturing center of electronics industry, as well as the sub-center of entertainment and retail in Hong Kong.

At present, the population of Tianshuiwei and its surrounding areas has exceeded 80, and it is believed that it will exceed one million in a short time.

Through a series of policies of the Xiangjiang government, the inflow of population in Xiangjiang has slowed down in recent years. As of last year, the registered population of Xiangjiang was 572 million.

Among the 500 million people, the population living in Xiangjiang Island and the Kowloon Peninsula is close to 400 million, which is not counted as a floating population. Even if Xiangjiang is currently building a number of new towns to share the pressure of Xiangjiang Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, the current effect is not good. Not too good.

This aspect still needs time to advance. On the one hand, the transportation, education, and medical equipment need to keep up. On the other hand, there is still a need for more jobs in major new towns, so that the pressure on the city center can be effectively relieved.

In the past few years, the pressure on the city center has been greatly reduced. 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.

Now the Tseung Kwan O side is working hard. After this side rises, the pressure in the urban area will be relieved to a certain extent. For example, TVB and ATV will be transferred here.

However, with the increase of Xiangjiang University, there are more students studying in Xiangjiang. The increase in population in the future will increase the population of Xiangjiang. It is still not enough to rely on Tin Shui Wai and Tseung Kwan O. Xiangjiang still needs more satellite cities to bear the pressure of the city center , so that the economic development of Xiangjiang can be better, and the living and living conditions of the citizens can be better.

Many residential houses on the Kowloon Peninsula are very small, and it would be very inconvenient for a family to have more places. How to improve the conditions in this area is also a key task of the Xiangjiang government.

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 enough for Yuen Long, Tseung Kwan O, and the urban area. Where is there any extra 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-Yuen Long subway was opened, Governor Wilson Wilson met again with Li Guangyu to discuss the future development of Xiangjiang.

The development of the new town in Tin Shui Wai has matured, and Tseung Kwan O is progressing in an orderly manner, and there is no need for the government to worry too much. This time, Wilson and Li Guangyu are discussing the development of the third new town.

At present, the only achievements of Wilson Wilson in Hong Kong are in transportation. The subway from Kwun Tong to Tin Shui Wai belonged to the former Governor Youde, including the higher education in Xiangjiang. These are all credited to Youde.

Now he only has the Xiangjiang International Airport under construction and the subway from Kwun Tong to Tseung Kwan O. He doesn't have much to offer in other aspects.

As a relatively ambitious governor, Wei Yixin still hopes that he can do some business in Xiangjiang, so that he can display his talent in the position.

He never thought that his talent was much worse than that of MacLehose and Youde. If these two were able to make achievements in Xiangjiang, he would naturally be able to make some political achievements that the citizens of Xiangjiang would remember.

The reason Wei Yixin approached Li Guangyu was because only Li Guangyu had the ability to build a new city in Xiangjiang and allow these people to stay.

A new city is not just about building houses. Tin Shui Wai relies on University City, top hospitals, Heung Kong Science and Technology Park, and Lee’s Industrial Park. At the same time, there are many commercial facilities, such as Wheelock Plaza, Xiangyu Comic Theme Park, etc. Provide many jobs.

Tseung Kwan O is basically a replica of Tin Shui Wai. It is also a university town, as well as Wheelock Plaza and City of Stars. In addition, some enterprises unrelated to the electronics industry in Lee’s Industrial Park have relocated here, bringing many employees and jobs.

But the third satellite city is obviously unable to do this. The university city is already impossible. The universities in Xiangjiang are basically saturated at this stage, so it doesn't make much sense to continue to establish a university.

Without a university town, without the consumption 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 planned by Xiangjiang, only Tin Shui Wai and Tseung Kwan O have succeeded so far. The development speed of other new towns is very slow. The main reason is that they cannot provide so many jobs and cannot retain personnel. It is impossible.

Tin Shui Wai is completely different from Tseung Kwan O. The Lee Consortium has developed transportation, schools, hospitals, and supermarkets. First of all, it is very convenient in terms of life, and it is no different 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 Xiangjiang's establishment of satellite cities. As long as there are more satellite cities in Xiangjiang, the living environment of Xiangjiang can be improved, many conflicts can be eased in the future, and the economy of Xiangjiang can also develop better.

He said aloud: "Governor, I personally support Xiangjiang to rebuild a few sub-central satellite cities to relieve the pressure on the center of Xiangjiang, but I don't know what plans Mr. Governor has for the specific construction?"

"I plan to build two new sub-centers in the Fanling Sheung Shui and Sham Shui Po districts in the northern district to relieve the pressure on Xiangjiang Island, Yau Tsim Mong, Kwun Tong and other places."

The reason why Wilson 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 northward to Pengcheng. Now the economic development here is very difficult, and it can provide jobs. There are also few jobs, and he hopes to make some improvements.

Moreover, there are still some foundations here. Xiangjiang City University is located in Sham Shui Po, and there are many factories here. Li Guangyu and his allies can buy them here, so that they can not occupy the 50 hectare quota, as long as the land use is changed a little bit. On the one hand, their government is very easy to operate.

Sham Shui Po is one of the five districts of Kowloon. It is very close to Xiangjiang Island, Yau Tsim Mong, Kwun Tong, Kowloon City, etc. The development of this area can better share the population pressure of several major districts.

Even if Sham Shui Po provides fewer jobs, with Xiangjiang Island, Yau Tsim Mong, and Kowloon City to make up for it, it can also drive the development here.

Li Guangyu said: "Sham Shui Po is easier to manage here. Now our Hengyu Supermarket Group is building a headquarters building here. In the future, this will be the headquarters of Hengyu, 7-11, and Xuelan. Buying some vacant factories can also build a large shopping supermarket, and I can also build Hongmei Clothing Wholesale City here, but it may be difficult to implement on the Fanling Sheung Shui side.”

Li Guangyu Hengyu Building used the land of his garment factory here before. When he took over the garment factory, the land occupied a considerable part of the assets. To develop here, you can buy the vacant factory land or buy the building. It was demolished and rebuilt, but there is no such condition in Sheung Shui, Fanling.

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 [-] jobs have been lost here.

You must know that many of them have been working in the garment industry for a long time, and they have been working for decades. Now that there is no job, it will be gone. It is not easy to start a new job.

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(End of this chapter)