Policy Address

Lantau Island

38.         The Pearl River Delta (PRD) has seen rapid economic development in recent years.  In the western PRD, places such as Zhuhai, Zhongshan, Foshan, Nansha and Shunde are endowed with rich resources and have enormous development potential.  In the past, Lantau was an outlying island.  Today, with the Tsing Ma Bridge, it remains the far end of our west-bound land transport network.  When the 55-kilometre Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge and the entire 9-kilometre Tuen Mun-Chek Lap Kok Link are completed in 2016 and 2018 respectively, Lantau will become an essential connecting point for journeys to and from Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao.  It will link Hong Kong Island, Kowloon, the New Territories and western PRD, and become the converging point of traffic from Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao.  This will bring fundamental change to Lantau's functions and development potential.

39.         The artificial island for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge Hong Kong Boundary Crossing Facilities (HKBCF) has an area of about 130 hectares.  With its proximity to the HKIA, it will serve as a gateway between Hong Kong and western PRD and will take on great value as a "bridgehead economy".  The Government has carried out a preliminary review of the supporting infrastructure to explore the feasibility of developing major shopping, dining, entertainment and hotel facilities at the HKBCF.  We will conduct a detailed study as soon as possible.

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