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Also officiating at today's opening ceremony, the Director of Territory Development, Mr Lee Shing-see, said that the Territory Development Department (TDD) played an important role in the successful completion of the ACP and was responsible for implementing three of the 10 ACP projects -- the Tung Chung new town, the West Kowloon Reclamation and the Central Reclamation.
"I am happy to say that we have been able to keep to the programme and the budget," he said.
On the Tung Chung new town development, Mr Lee said it would not only provide a support community for the new airport but also extend the new town programme to become the ninth new town with a planned population of 200,000 by the year 2011.
"They will enjoy the same high standard of living, improved environment and better community and recreational facilities as the some 2.5 million residents in the existing eight new towns do," he said.
The West Kowloon Reclamation will increase the size of Kowloon Peninsula by one-third by mid-1996. It will provide land for major transport links to the new airport such as the third harbour road crossing, the West Kowloon Expressway and the Airport Railway.
"The new land formed in West Kowloon and the additional land to be released upon the relocation of the airport from Kai Tak to Chek Lap Kok would certainly relieve crowding and provide better environment and facilities to the older districts.
"To maximise the development potential of the existing airport and adjoining sites, my department will arrange for a detailed feasibility study to be carried out in mid-1995 on an area almost as big as the Kowloon Peninsula," Mr Lee said.
Phase one of the Central Reclamation is also underway, Mr Lee said.
"This will provide land for the Hong Kong station of the Airport Railway.