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The reclamation would be consisting of the construction of artificial islands In the pamphlet, the project also suggested expanding the infrastructure capacity to support Lantau’s role as a "double gateway" to the world and [[Greater Bay Area]], including road and rail connecting the artificial islands and [[Hong Kong Island]] and [[Sunny Bay]]. |
The reclamation would be consisting of the construction of artificial islands In the pamphlet, the project also suggested expanding the infrastructure capacity to support Lantau’s role as a "double gateway" to the world and [[Greater Bay Area]], including road and rail connecting the artificial islands and [[Hong Kong Island]] and [[Sunny Bay]]. |
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The project, almost double the size of its original proposal, would be the largest and most expensive to date, with a predicted cost of between HK$400 billion and HK$500 billion (US$64 billion).<ref>{{cite news|title=In tomorrow’s world, Hong Kong’s leader sees a massive HK$500 billion artificial island in middle of the sea, home to 1.1 million people|date=10 October 2018|newspaper=South China Morning Post|url=https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/hong-kong-economy/article/2167936/tomorrows-world-hong-kongs-leader-sees-massive}}</ref> The project also suggested setting up a $1 billion Lantau Conservation Fund to promote and carry out conservation projects on Lantau. |
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Revision as of 16:01, 13 October 2018
Lantau Tomorrow Vision (Chinese: 明日大嶼願景) is a development project launched by Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam in her 2018 policy address which aims at creating an aerotropolis and a third core business district by constructing artificial islands with a total area of about 1,700 hectares through massive land reclamation near Kau Yi Chau and Hei Ling Chau of the eastern waters of Lantau Island.[1] The project meets with controversies and opposition for its high cost of estimated HK$500 billion (US$63.8 billion) – amounting to half of the city’s fiscal reserves, as well as environmental concerns.
Background
The idea of the massive reclamation in the eastern waters off Lantau Island first appeared in the Hong Kong government's Hong Kong 2030 Plus vision of 2016. The Hong Kong 2030 suggested developing an East Lantau Metropolis (ELM) by reclamations in the waters near Kau Yi Chau and the Hei Ling Chau with a capacity of accommodating population of about 400,000 to 700,000 and creating employment of about 200,000.[2] The Sustainable Lantau Blueprint of 2017 and the Task Force on Land Supply adopted the ELM project, in which the Task Force listed it as one of the 18 options in the five-month public consultation in 2018.[3]
During the public consultation of the Task Force on Land Supply, the think tank led by former Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, Our Hong Kong Foundation, proposed a research report on 7 August 2018 titled "Re-imagining Hong Kong with a Game-Changer: Enhanced East Lantau Metropolis" of reclaiming 2,200 hectares in the eastern waters off Lantau in 14 years of time which would house 1.1 million people that would solve Hong Kong's land shortage problems.[4] It came after Chief Executive Carrie Lam signaled her support for land reclamation when she said he was confident "that reclamation outside Victoria Harbour is the way to go, adding that she hopes the task force will also come to that conclusion."[5]
Content
On 10 October 2018, Carrie Lam's second policy address laid out the "Lantau Tomorrow Vision" which included the 1,700-hectare reclamation project which would provide between 260,000 and 400,000 homes to 700,000 to 1.1 million people, of which 70 per cent of the homes would be public housing.[6] The reclamation project would create artificial islands near Kau Yi Chau and Hei Ling Chau of the waters of East Lantau.
The reclamation would be consisting of the construction of artificial islands In the pamphlet, the project also suggested expanding the infrastructure capacity to support Lantau’s role as a "double gateway" to the world and Greater Bay Area, including road and rail connecting the artificial islands and Hong Kong Island and Sunny Bay.
The project, almost double the size of its original proposal, would be the largest and most expensive to date, with a predicted cost of between HK$400 billion and HK$500 billion (US$64 billion).[7] The project also suggested setting up a $1 billion Lantau Conservation Fund to promote and carry out conservation projects on Lantau.
Concerns
References
- ^ "Lantau a development priority". Hong Kong Government. 10 October 2018.
- ^ Hong Kong 2030+ (PDF).
- ^ "Hong Kong vision for huge East Lantau island is a gift to private business and blind to costs of climate change". South China Morning Post. 12 October 2018.
- ^ "Re-imagining Hong Kong with a Game-Changer: Enhanced East Lantau Metropolis". Our Hong Kong Foundation. 7 August 2018.
- ^ "Carrie Lam signals support for land reclamation". RTHK. 1 July 2018.
- ^ "Hong Kong will build homes on artificial islands near Lantau to tackle housing crisis: Carrie Lam". Strait Times. 10 October 2018.
- ^ "In tomorrow's world, Hong Kong's leader sees a massive HK$500 billion artificial island in middle of the sea, home to 1.1 million people". South China Morning Post. 10 October 2018.