Sheung Shui (, literally "Above-water") is an area in the

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

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 Delt ...

. Sheung Shui Town, a part of this area, is part of the Fanling–Sheung Shui New Town in the North District of

. Fanling Town is to its southeast.

History

Shek Wu Hui () used to be the marketplace of the Sheung Shui area, before the development of Sheung Shui Town. Bounded by Lung Sum Avenue (), San Fung Avenue and Jockey Club Road, it was the main market in the Sheung Shui area from the 1930s onwards. Today some private residences can be found towering over the old flats in the ''hui'' (market). The majority of the buildings still standing were repaired in the 1950s.

Sheung Shui Wai Sheung Shui Wai (), also known as Sheung Shui Heung () is an area in Sheung Shui, in the northern part of the New Territories of Hong Kong. Its population is around 6,000 people. Administration For electoral purposes, Sheung Shui Wai is part of ...

(), originally lived in by the

Liu / ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text ...

() clan, is a

walled village A walled village () is a type of large traditional multi-family communal living structure found in China, that is designed to be easily defensible. It is completely surrounded by thick defensive walls, protecting the residents from the attack o ...

. The ancestral hall Liu Man Shek Tong () in the village is one of the

declared monuments of Hong Kong Declared monuments of Hong Kong are places, structures or buildings legally declared to receive the highest level of protection. In Hong Kong, declaring a monument requires consulting the Antiquities Advisory Board, the approval of the Chief Exec ...

. The , located near Sheung Shui Wai and originally established by the Liu clan, is the largest secondary school in Hong Kong, in terms of area covered. More than one turfed football pitch can be found inside the school campus. Because of its green and ample campus, the school used to serve as a scene for local educational television programs.

Housing estates in Sheung Shui Town

Public estates

* Choi Yuen Estate (彩園邨) * Tin Ping Estate (天平邨) *

Tai Ping Estate Tai Ping Estate () is a public housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong. It consists of four residential buildings completed in 1989. Some of the flats were sold to tenants through Tenants Purchase Scheme Phase 5 in 2002. Houses ...

(太平邨) *

Ching Ho Estate Ching may refer to: People * Ching (given name), a unisex name * Ching (surname), a romanization of some Chinese surnames such as Cheng and Zhuang * Ching Hammill (1902–1925), American football player * Ivan Ching Johnson (1898–1979), Canadia ...

(清河邨) *

Cheung Lung Wai Estate Cheung Lung Wai Estate () is a public housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong near North District Hospital. It comprises two residential blocks providing 1,358 units completed in 2015. Houses Demographics According to the 2 ...

(祥龍圍邨) *

Po Shek Wu Estate Po Shek Wu Estate () is a public housing estate located at the junction of Po Shek Wu Road and Choi Yuen Road in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong near MTR Sheung Shui station. It comprises three residential blocks of 25, 29 and 33 storeys ...

(寶石湖邨)

Home Ownership Scheme Courts

Yuk Po Court Choi Yuen Estate () is a public housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Landmark North and MTR Sheung Shui station. It is the first public housing estate in North District and consists of six residential buildings compl ...

(旭埔苑) * Choi Po Court (彩蒲苑) *

On Shing Court Tin Ping Estate () is a public housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong, near Sacred Hill and Tin Ping Shan Tsuen. It is the northernmost mixed public and TPS housing estate in Sheung Shui Town and consists of seven residential ...

(安盛苑) * Sunningdale Garden (順欣花園) * Tsui Lai Garden (翠麗花園)

Private estates

* Lung Fung Garden (龍豐花園) * Metropolis Plaza (新都廣場) * Sheung Shui Centre (上水中心) * Sheung Shui Town Centre (上水名都) *

Woodland Crest Woodland Crest () is a private housing estate in Sheung Shui, New Territories, Hong Kong. It was developed by Sun Hung Kai Properties, and is managed bHong Yip Service Co. Ltd It has a total of 548 apartments, and was completed in May 1996. Sun ...

(奕翠園) * Venice Garden (威尼斯花園) * Noble Hill (皇府山) * Royal Green (御皇庭) * Royal Jubilee (海禧華庭) * On Kwok Villa (安國新村) * Pearl Vista (明珠華軒) * Glorious Peak (顯峰)

Villages in the Sheung Shui area

Hakka Wai Tsung Pak Long () is a village and the name of an area in Sheung Shui, North District, Hong Kong. Administration Tsung Pak Long is a recognized village under the New Territories Small House Policy. It is one of the villages represented within t ...

(客家圍) ** Tsung Pak Long Tsuen (松柏塱村) ** Tai Tau Leng (大頭嶺) *

(上水圍) ** Wai Loi Tsuen (圍內村) ** Man Kok Tsuen (文閣村) ** Ha Pak Tsuen (下北村) ** Sheung Pak Tsuen (上北村) ** Chung Sam Tsuen (中心村) ** Tai Yuen Tsuen (大元村) ** Hing Yan Tsuen (興仁村) ** Po Sheung Tsuen (莆上村) ** Mun Hau Tsuen (門口村) * Fu Tei Au Tsuen (虎地拗村) * Hung Kiu San Tsuen (紅橋新村) * Wa Shan Tsuen (華山村) * Tin Ping Shan Tsuen (天平山村) * Wu Nga Lok Yeung (烏鴉落陽) * Shek Wu San Tsuen (石湖新村) * Ling Shan Tsuen (靈山村) * Ng Uk Village (吳屋村) * Siu Hang Tsuen (小坑村) * Siu Hang San Tsuen (小坑新村) *新界五大氏族The Great Five Clans in New Territories-侯氏(HAU) ** Ho Sheung Heung (河上鄉) ** Yin Kong Tsuen (燕崗村) ** Kam Tsin Tsuen (金錢村) ** Ping Kong (丙崗)

Shopping centres in Sheung Shui Town

* Lung Fung Garden (龍豐花園) * Metropolis Plaza (新都廣場) * Sheung Shui Centre (上水中心) * Sheung Shui Town Centre (上水名都) * Landmark North (上水廣場)

Community facilities in Sheung Shui Town

* Lung Sum Avenue Sports Centre (龍琛路體育館) * North District Park (北區公園) * North District Sportsground (北區運動場) * North District Town Hall (北區大會堂) * Shek Wu Hui Municipal Services Building (石湖墟市政大廈) * Shek Wu Hui Playground (石湖墟公園) * Sheung Shui Public Library (上水公共圖書館) * Sheung Shui Swimming Pool (上水游泳池) * Tin Ping Sports Centre (天平體育館)

Public services in Sheung Shui Town

North District Hospital North District Hospital () or NDH is an acute general hospital serving the population of the New Territories East Cluster. It has now 683 in-patient beds,NTEC Bed Inventory, Hospital Authority 24-hour Accident & Emergency service, specialist out ...

(北區醫院) * Shek Wu Hui Jockey Club Clinic (石湖墟賽馬會診所) * Shek Wu Hui Post Office (石湖墟郵政局) * Sheung Shui Fire Station (上水消防局) * Sheung Shui Library

Schools in Sheung Shui Town

* Hong Kong Taoist Association Tang Hin Memorial Secondary School (香港道教聯合會鄧顯紀念中學) *

Sheung Shui Government Secondary School Sheung Shui Government Secondary School (SSGSS, ) is a co-educational secondary school operated by the Government of Hong Kong located in Sheung Shui, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1991 and its medium of instruction is Chinese. History ...

(上水官立中學) *

Tung Wah Group of Hospitals Kap Yan Directors' College Tung may refer to: People * Madison Tung, a U.S. Air Force Officer, wrestler, and Rhodes Scholar * Ho-Pin Tung, a dutch race car driver of Chinese descent. * Lola Tung, an actress known for her acting debut on drama series The Summer I Turned Pr ...

(東華三院甲寅年總理中學) Sheung Shui is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 80. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government schools are in this net.

Transport

Sheung Shui Town and the rest of the Sheung Shui area is served by the

Sheung Shui station Sheung Shui (; : , literally "Above-water") is the penultimate northbound station on the in Hong Kong. This station serves as the terminus of northbound trains after the Lo Wu and Lok Ma Chau boundary crossings have closed for the day. It is ...

of the

East Rail line The East Rail line () is one of ten lines of the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) system in Hong Kong. It used to be one of the three lines of the Kowloon–Canton Railway (KCR) network. It was known as the KCR British Section () from 1910 to 199 ...

in the Sheung Shui's town centre. This line takes them into Kowloon within 40 minutes, and then onto surrounding areas through connections with other MTR lines. Many KMB routes and minibus routes serve Sheung Shui. Residents can take buses to other parts of North District, western

(including

Yuen Long Town Yuen Long Town (formerly Un Long Town or Un Long Hui) is located in the district centre of Yuen Long District, New Territories, Hong Kong. It is the heart of Yuen Long and Yuen Long New Town, with a population of around 200,000. Geography ...

Tuen Mun Tuen Mun or Castle Peak is an area near the mouth of Tuen Mun River and Castle Peak Bay in the New Territories, Hong Kong. It was one of the earliest settlements in what is now Hong Kong and can be dated to the Neolithic period. In the more re ...

new Town and

Tsuen Wan Tsuen Wan (formerly also spelled Tsun Wan) is a town built on a bay in the western New Territories of Hong Kong, opposite of Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel. The market town of Tsuen Wan emerged from the surrounding villages and flee ...

new Town),

Tai Po Tai Po is an area in the New Territories of Hong Kong. It refers to the vicinity of the traditional market towns in the area presently known as Tai Po Old Market or Tai Po Kau Hui () (the original "Tai Po Market") on the north of Lam Tsu ...

newTown,

Sha Tin Sha Tin, also spelt Shatin, is a neighbourhood along Shing Mun River in the eastern New Territories, Hong Kong. Administratively, it is part of the Sha Tin District. Sha Tin is one of the neighbourhoods of the Sha Tin New Town project. The ...

new Town, most parts of Kowloon, parts of northern

Hong Kong Island Hong Kong Island is an Islands and peninsulas of Hong Kong, island in the southern part of Hong Kong. Known colloquially and on road signs simply as Hong Kong, the island has a population of 1,289,500 and its population density is 16,390/km ...

and the

Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport is Hong Kong's main airport, built on reclaimed land on the island of Chek Lap Kok, Hong Kong. The airport is also referred to as Chek Lap Kok International Airport or ''Chek Lap Kok Airport'', to distinguish ...

. The KMB bus terminus and the

green minibus The public light bus or minibus is a public transport service in Hong Kong. It uses minibuses to serve areas that standard Hong Kong bus lines cannot reach efficiently. The vehicles are colloquially known by the code-switch ' (Van Jái) lite ...

terminus are located by Landmark North in Sheung Shui Town. Also, a non-schedule red minibus terminus is located at San Hong Street in Sheung Shui Town. Taxi ranks are located around the town, including outside the MTR station, Landmark North shopping centre and on side roads branching off of San Fung Avenue. Ma Sik Road is a road connecting Sheung Shui and Fanling in Hong Kong. It is an U-shaped road.

Cross-border activities

Due to their proximity to the Shenzhen border, 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 mainland parallel traders arriving in the North District of Hong Kong to re-export infant formula and household products – goods popular with mainlanders – across the border to Shenzhen. Trafficking caused chronic local shortages of milk powder in Hong Kong, forcing 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 mainland trafficking were widely seen as inadequate, so there have been further subsequent protests in towns in the North District including Sheung Shui.Wong, Hilary; Cheng, Kevin (9 March 2015)
"Targeting mainlanders ... young and old"
. ''The Standard''

References

*2007. ''2007 Hong Kong Map''. Easy Finder Ltd.

External links

Sheung Shui, North District
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