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Although Hong Kong is regarded as one of the world's great cities, more than 70 per cent of its 1,045 square kilometres is countryside. In an effort to protect this natural asset and to provide more recrea- tional facilities for the territory's 4.5 million people, the government has set up a Country Parks Authority under the auspices of the Agricultural and Fisheries Department. So far the authority has formally designated five country parks covering an area of 4,023 hectares. They are Kam Shan, Shing Mun and Lion Rock in the New Territories, and Tai Tam and Aberdeen on Hong Kong Island. The government plans to designate four parks a year so that, by 1981, there will be about 20 covering virtually all of the territory's. 730 square kilometreside. At the end of 1977, plans were well advanced to designate areas westwards from Shing Mun towards Castle Peak; in the vicinity of Bride's Pool; and around the Sai Kung Peninsula. Other parks are planned for Lantau Island which, although sparsely populated, is twice the size of Hong Kong Island. During the past five years, the Agricultural and Fisheries Department has been expanding its management services in the countryside by providing picnic sites with tables and benches, litter bins and children's play apparatus and, where it is safe, fireplaces for barbecues. Footpaths are being improved and sign-posted, and there are nature trails with guide-books for people who take their outings seriously.
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Previous page: The sun sets on an Inner Port Shelter seascape adjoining part of the Sai Kung Peninsula scheduled to become Hong largest country park early in 1978 Top (from left): The opening up of the countryside has generated considerable interest in camping; city dwellers mingle "with country folk in the New Territories, picnickers enjoy a barbecue in the Aberdeen Country Park on Hong Kong Island.
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