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some 60,000 people living on boats moored mostly in Government
typhoon shelters.
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The majority of new housing is now being built in new towns in
the New Territories. Over a period of about 10 years from the mid-
1970s, in a programme probably unprecedented in scale anywhere in
the world, it is proposed to expand the town of Tsuen Wan from
500,000 to 900,000 people and to build two complete new towns for
500,000 people each at Shatin and Tuen Mun. Similar developments
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are also underway at the market towns of Tai Po, Yuen Long and
Fanling, which between them will ultimately house a further 500,000
people. All of the new towns are planned as integrated communities,
which will provide employment as well as domestic accommodation.
particular, two new industrial estates are being developed by the
Government-run Hong Kong Industrial Estates Corporation at Tai Po
and Yuen Long.
Hong Kong and General Department
September 1979