Environment
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In
recent years
intensifying its efforts to
reduce pollution.
the
Hong Kong Government has been
improve the physical environment
and
Α new Environmental Protection Department was
established in April which will be responsible for all aspects of
pollution control. Progress was also made in the formulation of
Legislation to control noise and to improve air quality. New regulations for controlling water pollution were made in June and,
in order to reduce the pollution of stream courses which is
presently being caused by the indiscriminate
of dumping
animal
wastes, the
announced Hong Kong Government
Later in the year its
intention to ban Livestock keeping in the urban areas, and to
institute strict controls in rural
in rural areas.
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Culture, recreation and sport
During the Last ten years the people of Hong Kong have benefitted from major investment, by the Hong Kong Government, the Urban Council and organisations such as the Royal Hong Kong Jockey
Club in facilities for the arts and for recreation and sporting
activities.
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The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts was officially opened by Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent in February 1986. It already has 345 full-time students training in Chinese and western music, drama, dance and related technical arts. When fully developed, it will provide for 600 full-time
full-time students. Hong Kong
already has eight cultural centres of different sizes and designs, and the Sha Tin and the Tuen Mun Town Halls, each with a 1,400-seat auditorium, will open in 1987. The Hong Kong Cultural Centre with a 2,250-seat concert hall, a 1,860-seat grand theatre and a 500-seat studio theatre is under construction and due for completion
1989.
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Hong Kong also has some of the best sporting facilities in South East Asia, including modern stadia, multi-purpose games halls and swimming pool complexes. The Jubilee Sports Centre and Sha Tin
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