Lau Fau Shan () is an

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Yuen Long District Yuen Long District (formerly romanised as Un Long) is one of the districts of Hong Kong. Located in the northwest of the New Territories, it had a population of 662,000 in 2021 Geography Yuen Long District contains the largest alluvial pla ...

, in the

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of Hong Kong. It is at the shore of Deep Bay, near

Tin Shui Wai Tin Shui Wai New Town is a satellite town in the northwestern New Territories of Hong Kong. Originally a ' fish pond area, it was developed in the 1980s as the second new town in Yuen Long District and the eighth in Hong Kong. It is due northw ...

and facing

Shekou Shekou () is an area at the southern tip of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, Guangdong Province, China. It faces Yuen Long, Hong Kong across the Deep Bay, China, Shenzhen Bay. It has been designated as a free-t ...

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Economy

Lau Fau Shan is traditionally famous for fresh

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s. About 100 tons were harvested every year, some for consumption in

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and some for export to neighboring countries. However, little remains of this today since most of the

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of Lau Fau Shan have given up

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.Lau Fau Shan Tourism: Lau Fau Shan, Hong Kong Travel Guide , Planet Ware "." Retrieved on 4 July 2010.

Features

Here stands a 1500-year-old

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founded by the legendary

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Pui To Pui To ( Chinese: 杯渡) was a Buddhist monk living at the time of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. The legend has it that he once went to Tuen Mun in the New Territories of Hong Kong to construct roads, and he lived a ...

, who is said to have landed on this coast in a wooden tub.

Climate

Education

Lau Fau Shan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 72. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and one government school:

Government Primary School (天水圍官立小學).

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