๐ญ๐ฐ Yuen Long New Town is a new town in the north-west New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed from the traditional market town of Yuen Long Town (ๅ ๆๅธ) from the late 1970s onwards. As it is located in the centre of Yuen Long Plain, the town occupies the best location for villages in the surrounding area to sell their crops and fish. To the west is Ping Shan, south Shap Pat Heung, east Kam Tin, and north Nam Sang Wai. Yuen Long District (ๅ ๆๅ) is one of the districts of Hong Kong.
Market town The central part of Yuen Long was traditionally a market town, in the area now known as Yuen Long San Hui (ๅ ๆๆฐๅข), in Yuen Long District, where people from the surrounding villages sold their crops and fish. The market is still a place where people from villages in the north-west New Territories shop and trade. Like many market towns in Hong Kong, the market operates only on certain days each week. Modern shopping malls and restaurants have also established.
New towns Two new towns have been developed in Yuen Long since the 1970s: Yuen Long New Town was developed in and around the market town in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Tin Shui Wai New Town was established in the 1990s to the west of Yuen Long New Town, separate from Yuen Long New Town. It is mostly residential.
There are Light Rail Transit and several bus routes serving between the two towns.
Housing estate The private residential estate Fairview Park is in the north-east part of Yuen Long.
Cross-border activities Due to their proximity to the Shenzhen border in China's Guangdong province, towns in the northern parts of Hong Kong, notably Sheung Shui and Yuen Long, have become hubs for parallel traders who have been buying up large quantities of goods, forcing up local prices and disrupting the daily lives of local citizens. Since 2012, there has been a vertiginous increase in Chinese parallel traders arriving in the North District of Hong Kong to re-export infant formula and household products โ goods popular with the Chinese โ across the border to Shenzhen. Trafficking caused chronic local shortages of milk powder in Hong Kong, which led the government to impose restrictions on the amount of milk powder exports from Hong Kong.
The first anti-parallel trading protest was started at Sheung Shui in September 2012. As government efforts to limit the adverse impact of Chinese trafficking were widely seen as inadequate, there have been further subsequent protests in towns in the North District including Sheung Shui. A campaign called Liberate Yuen Long was mounted on 1 March 2015 by localist groups to protest smuggling and parallel trading.
Buses Inside Yuen Long Town โข KMB routes 53, 54, 64K, 68A, 68E, 68F, 68M, 68R, 68X, 76K, 77K, 264R, 268A, 268B, 268C, 268P, 268X, 269D, 276, 276P, 869, 968, 968A, 968X, B1, N269, N368, R968. โฆ Route B1 to Lok Ma Chau station Control Point, a customs checkpoint between Hong Kong and China โข MTR Bus routes K65, K66, K68, K73, K74 โข Long Win Bus routes A36, E36, E36A, N30, NA36 โข New Lantao Bus route B2 โฆ Route B2 to Shenzhen Bay Port, a customs checkpoint between Hong Kong and China.
Outside Yuen Long Town (except via Yuen Long Town) โข KMB routes 51, 64S, 69C, 69M, 69P, 69X, 251A, 251B, 251M, 265B, 265M, 265S, 269A, 269B, 269C, 269M, 269P, 276A, 276B โข MTR Bus routes K75, K75A, K75P โข Long Win Bus routes A37, E36P, E37, NA37 โข New Lantao Bus routes B2P, B2X โฆ Routes B2P and B2X to Shenzhen Bay Port, a customs checkpoint between Hong Kong and China โข Citybus routes 967, 967X, 969, 969A, 969B, 969C, 969P, 969X, N969.
Transport: Rail Inside Yuen Long Town โข MTR Tuen Ma line โข Light Rail routes 610, 614, 615 and 761P.
Outside Yuen Long Town (except via Yuen Long Town) โข MTR Tuen Ma line โข Light Rail routes 705, 706 and 751.
History The earliest market in Yuen Long was south of the main road, near Tai Kei Leng. In 1669, the market was moved north to the area near the present-day Yuen Long station. This area is now known as Yuen Long Kau Hui (ๅ ๆ่ๅข, lit. "old Yuen Long Town"). This market is sited south of a small hill. While it is far from the coast today, it was beside the seashore when the market was first built.
Cheung Shing Street, which separates Nam Pin Wai and Sai Pin Wai, divides the centre of the market. Temples were built for worship and to judge disputes. After the British leased the New Territories in 1898, they built Castle Peak Road to connect major areas of the New Territories and Kowloon. The villagers proposed and moved the market town to the main road. After the Second World War, Yuen Long Town dramatically increased in size, going from a small village into a large town known for its numerous cultural and sporting events.
Yuen Long has a population of over 148,000 people. Yuen Long also forms the centre of the wider Yuen Long District which has a population of over 449,070 people. It is also a part of the larger Hong Kong Region.
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๐ญ๐ฐ Tin Shui Wai 22.46
๐จ๐บ Camajuanรญ 22.467
๐จ๐บ Santa Clara 22.406
๐จ๐บ Pinar del Rรญo 22.4
๐ญ๐ฐ Ma On Shan Tsuen 22.4
๐จ๐ณ Jinggangshan 114.055
๐ญ๐ฐ Ha Kwai Chung 114.117
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๐ญ๐ฐ Tuen Mun 113.973,22.391 d: 6.5
๐จ๐ณ Futian 114.05,22.517 d: 9.9
๐ญ๐ฐ Tsuen Wan 114.1,22.367 d: 11.3
๐จ๐ณ Shenzen 114.06,22.542 d: 12.8
๐ญ๐ฐ Ha Kwai Chung 114.117,22.367 d: 12.7
๐ญ๐ฐ Kwai Chung 114.117,22.367 d: 12.7
๐จ๐ณ Shenzhen 114.086,22.547 d: 14.5
Antipodal to: Yuen Long -65.983,-22.433
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