This is a list of lighthouses in the

People's Republic of China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

which includes

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and the two

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Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delta i ...

and

Macau Macau or Macao (; ; ; ), officially the Macao Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (MSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China in the western Pearl River Delta by the South China Sea. With a p ...

Lighthouses in Mainland China

Lighthouses in Hong Kong

Following the establishment of British Hong Kong as a trade port in 1841, the first lighthouses in Hong Kong were planned and built to assist international navigation. The first lighthouse to enter service was Cape D'Aguilar Lighthouse in April 1875, which was operated by

lighthouse keeper A lighthouse keeper or lightkeeper is a person responsible for tending and caring for a lighthouse, particularly the light and lens in the days when oil lamps and clockwork mechanisms were used. Lighthouse keepers were sometimes referred to as ...

s who received specialist training in

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and lived in the lighthouse in one-month shifts. HK_Lei_Yue_Mun_Coast_Lighthouse_Evening_3

As of 2017, five lighthouse structures in Hong Kong that date from before the

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remain in operation: Cape D'Aguilar, Green Island (two lighthouses), Waglan, and

Tang Lung Chau Tang Lung Chau () is a islet located off the southern coast of Ma Wan island to the northwest of Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. Lighthouse Tang Lung Chau Lighthouse and the former light keeper's house, located on Tang Lung Chau, was declare ...

. All of them are listed heritage sites. Lei Yue Mun Lighthouse has also been in continuous operation since 1902, but the structure was rebuilt in the 1950s. In addition, Gap Island Lighthouse (also known as ''Mosquito Island'', or ''Man Mei Chau'' from

Cantonese Cantonese ( zh, t=廣東話, s=广东话, first=t, cy=Gwóngdūng wá) is a language within the Chinese (Sinitic) branch of the Sino-Tibetan languages originating from the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding ar ...

蚊尾洲, pronounced ''Wenwei Zhou'' in

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), situated on an island due south from Hong Kong, was built in 1892 in collaboration between the British Hong Kong and Qing Empire governments; this lighthouse is now under

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

administration and fully automated using solar power.

Lighthouses in Macau

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* {{Asia topic, List of lighthouses in China *

Lighthouses A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ...

Lighthouses in Mainland China

Lighthouses in Hong Kong

Lighthouses in Macau

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