Ngong Ping
Ngong Ping (
Administration
Ngong Ping Wan is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy.[1]
Tourism projects
In 2002, the Hong Kong government announced that the MTR Corporation (MTRC) had secured the rights to run a cable car which formed part of a HK$750 million tourism project scheduled for completion in August 2005. Under the plan, a theme village would be built at Ngong Ping along a 'tourist corridor', with 6,000 square metres of shop space and an 18,600-square-metre piazza between the cable car terminal and the Po Lin Monastery. A 5.5 km cable car line, jointly managed by the MTRC and Skyrail-ITM of Australia, would link it to Tung Chung station, in the vicinity of Hong Kong International Airport. Government-funded infrastructure works were estimated to cost $70 million.[2]
The MTRC were granted the rights to develop and run businesses within the tourist corridor, which religious groups feared could destroy the area's religious environment, and threaten the closure of the Po Lin Monastery by draining their revenues.
Facilities and tourist attractions opened in 2005 include the Ngong Ping Village, Walking with the Buddha, A tale of monkey's theatre and Ngong Ping tea house.
Entertainments
The press conference of Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation was held in Ngong Ping Village in November 2021,[3] 2022[4]and 2023.[5]
See also
- List of areas of Hong Kong
References
- ^ "List of Recognized Villages under the New Territories Small House Policy" (PDF). Lands Department. September 2009.
- ^ a b Leung, Ambrose & Chow Chung-yan (4 July 2002). "MTRC to run Lantau cable car", South China Morning Post
- ^ "Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation 2021 Press Con". 881903. 8 November 2021.
- ^ "Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation 2022 Press Con". 881903. Retrieved 9 November 2022.
- ^ "Ultimate Song Chart Awards Presentation 2023 Press Con". 881903. 24 October 2023.