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39-584: Anderson Road is a road on the eastern border of the New Territories and New Kowloon in Hong Kong. It starts near the junction of Clear Water Bay Road and New Clear Water Bay Road , above Shun Lee Estate , then continues southeast to Tseng Lan Shue ( 井欄樹 ) and eastward through the hills above Sau Mau Ping , and finally ends at Po Lam Road ( 寶琳路 ) in Ma Yau Tong . To the east of the road

78-540: A pun on the name "Chiu Keng Leng" mentioned above. Because it was inauspicious, the name was later changed to similar-sounding 調景嶺 (Tiu King Leng / Jyutping: tiu4 ging2 leng5, which can be interpreted as "ridge of adjusting situation".) The 1819 edition of the Gazetteer of Xin'an County does not mention the place. On 26 June 1950 the Hong Kong Government 's Social Welfare Office (the predecessor of

117-578: A 19th-century Canadian businessman named Alfred Herbert Rennie, who established the Hong Kong Milling Company at Junk Bay (his partners were Paul Chater and Hormusjee Naorojee Mody ). The business failed, and Rennie drowned himself there in 1908, though it was mistakenly reported that he had hanged himself. The incident gave the Chinese name for the site 吊頸嶺 (Tiu Keng Leng / Jyutping : diu3 geng2 leng5), meaning "Hanging (neck) Ridge",

156-715: A few areas and reserves large parts of the region as parkland . As the expiry date of the lease neared in the 1980s, talks between the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China led to the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration (1984), in which the whole of Hong Kong would be returned, instead of only the New Territories. The New Territories comprises nine districts each with their own District Council : According to

195-509: A frontal attack against the temporary police station in Tai Po that was the main British base but were beaten back by superior force of arms. An attempt by the clansmen at guerilla warfare was put down by the British near Lam Tsuen with over 500 Chinese men killed, and collapsed when British artillery was brought to bear on the walled villages of the clansmen. Most prominent of the villages in

234-429: A much-used link to the urban area of Kowloon. The Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) is well known for the shape of its building. Designed by French architects Coldefy & Associs, it resembles a piece of paper floating mid-air featuring a glazed box raised seven storeys above the ground on four lattice-steel towers that rest on a sloping, grass-covered podium. Total construction cost amounted to HK$ 1.2 billion, it

273-483: A resettlement estate due to its apprehension of the growing Kuomintang presence in the enclave. It also had a significant missionary presence. Owing to its pro-Kuomintang atmosphere, the 1967 riots did not have an effect on Rennie's Mill. Rennie's Mill was badly damaged by Typhoon Wanda in 1962, rendering many homeless. In 1996 the Hong Kong government evicted the last of Rennie's Mill's original residents, ostensibly to make room for new town developments as part of

312-546: Is Charles Alexander Anderson , Commander British Troops in Southern China who proposed the construction of passage between Customs Pass (now near Fei Ngo Shan Road ) and Devil's Peak to move the troops, which resembles much of the old Anderson Road. The original road was longer than at present. After reaching Lau Tong , present-day Ma Yau Tong, it ran south to western slope of Black Hill and Hai Wan (present-day Chiu Keng Wan Shan ). It further went south to near

351-452: Is Tai Sheung Tok hill. From 1964, the hilltop was developed as a large quarry , Anderson Road Quarry ( 安達臣道石礦場 ), highly visible from much of Kowloon and Hong Kong, which supplied construction aggregate to Hong Kong until July 2017, operated by the K.Wah Group , when it was one of only three quarries still operating in Hong Kong, along with those in Shek O and Lam Tei . The quarry site is on

390-414: Is a source of friction between indigenous inhabitants and other Hong Kong residents. Lord Lugard was Governor from 1907 to 1912, and he proposed the return of Weihaiwei to the Chinese government, in return for the ceding of the leased New Territories in perpetuity. The proposal was not received favourably, although if it had been acted on, Hong Kong might have remained forever in British hands. Much of

429-610: Is an area of Hong Kong in the Sai Kung District adjacent to Tseung Kwan O (Junk Bay). The area used to be a refugee village housing former Kuomintang officials and followers who escaped to Hong Kong from mainland China after the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC); however, the original Tiu Keng Leng village was cleared before Hong Kong's sovereignty transfer to the PRC in 1997, and nowadays Tiu Keng Leng

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468-534: Is one of earliest roads built by British Army after the British got the lease of New Territories from the Qing in 1899. It is unclear after whom the road is named. While some claimed William John Anderson, Controller of Stores in Government Supplies of Hong Kong Government , others believe unlikely as Anderson Road was named by 1924, 14 years before the appointment of the person. Another likely origin

507-461: Is thoroughly redeveloped as part of the Tseung Kwan O New Town . The earliest traceable name referring to the area nowadays known as Tiu Keng Leng was " Chiu Keng Leng " (照鏡嶺, lit. ridge of mirror reflection), being a reference to the clearness and calmness of the adjacent bay . The name was given by Tanka residents in the area. Both the names "Tiu Keng Leng" and "Rennie's Mill" come from

546-563: The 2021 census , the population of the New Territories was 3,984,077, representing 53.7% of Hong Kong's total population. 90.4% of the residents of New Territories use Cantonese as their main language. 3.5% of its residents use English , 2.0% use Mandarin Chinese , and 2.3% of New Territories' residents use other Chinese dialects. 93.1% of the district's population is of Chinese descent. The largest ethnic minority groups are Filipinos (2.1%), Indonesians (1.8%), South Asians (1.1%), Mixed (0.8%) and Whites (0.7%). New Kowloon covers

585-662: The Anderson Road bus stop. 22°19′37″N 114°14′11″E  /  22.3269°N 114.2363°E  / 22.3269; 114.2363 New Territories Later, after New Kowloon was defined from the area between the Boundary Street and the Kowloon Ranges spanned from Lai Chi Kok to Lei Yue Mun , and the extension of the urban areas of Kowloon, New Kowloon was gradually urbanised and absorbed into Kowloon. The New Territories now comprises only

624-615: The First Sino-Japanese War had shown that it was incapable of defending itself. Victoria City and Victoria Harbour were vulnerable to any hostile forces launching attacks from the hills of Kowloon. Alarmed by the encroachment of other European powers in China, Britain also feared for the security of Hong Kong. Using the most favoured nation clause that it had negotiated with Peking, the United Kingdom demanded

663-797: The Kuomintang cause. Thus, by the late-1950s, in correlation with the Cold War context in Asia at the time, Rennie's Mill gradually became a "Bastion Against Communism", with the flag of the Republic of China flying (earning it the sobriquet "Little Taiwan "), its own school system and practically off-limits to the Royal Hong Kong Police Force until 1962 when the Hong Kong Government decided to turn it into

702-587: The Social Welfare Department ) settled a considerable number of refugees from China – former Nationalist soldiers and other Kuomintang supporters (according to official government account, there were 6,800 of them) – at Rennie's Mill, following the Chinese Civil War . With the newly built temporary settlements, the colonial government provided food and living expenses to the refugees. The Hong Kong Government's original intention

741-586: The Tseung Kwan O New Town , but widely believed to be a move to please the Communist Chinese government before the transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong in 1997. Earlier in 1961, the people of Rennie's Mill were promised by the government that they would be able to stay "indefinitely," and in June 1996, residents petitioned the High Court , where judge Raymond Sears found that "In my judgment,

780-517: The Extension of Hong Kong Territory). Upon the expiry of the lease, sovereignty was transferred to the People's Republic of China in 1997, together with the Qing-ceded territories of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon Peninsula. In 2021, the population of the New Territories was recorded at 3,984,077, with a population density of 4,140 per square kilometre (10,720/sq mi). Hong Kong Island

819-449: The New Territories was, and to a limited extent still is, made up of rural areas. Attempts at modernising the area did not become fully committed until the late 1970s, when many new towns were built to accommodate the population growth from urbanised areas of Kowloon and Hong Kong Island. Despite rapid development of the new towns, which now accommodate a population of over 3 million, the Hong Kong Government confines built-up areas to

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858-566: The Tiu Keng Leng Station. With nine towers built on top of a carpark/shopping mall podium, it is the tallest structure in the area. To the south of Metro Town, on the site of a former steel mill operated by Shiu Wing Steel, is another private housing estate, Ocean Shores. The three public housing estates in the area are Kin Ming Estate , Choi Ming Court and Shin Ming Estate. Before the redevelopment and reclamation in

897-479: The area of Rennie's Mill , some churches were built along part of the road, which was extended from the southern end of the present-day Anderson Road to the present-day Po Lam Road South ). Until the late 1980s, this road was only used by residents of Rennie's Mill. In the late 1980s, when the first two public housing estates in Po Lam , Tseung Kwan O New Town - Po Lam Estate and Tsui Lam Estate were built, it

936-595: The conduct of the Housing Authority by serving notices to quit, in breach of the clear promises of 1961, amounts to an abuse of power." After the handover, the English name of the area was changed from "Rennie's Mill" to "Tiu Keng Leng", following the Cantonese name. Tiu Keng Leng became redeveloped as a modern high-rise residential district. Metro Town is a private housing estate situated directly above

975-785: The entirety of the Wong Tai Sin and Kwun Tong districts, as well as the mainland portion of the Sham Shui Po District (i.e. excluding the Stonecutters Island ) and the northern portion of the Kowloon City District (portion to the north of Boundary Street/Prince Edward Road West , as well as reclaimed land including the Kai Tak Airport ). Tiu Keng Leng Tiu Keng Leng ( Chinese : 調景嶺 ), formerly Rennie's Mill ,

1014-689: The extension of Kowloon to counter the influence of France in southern China in June 1898. In July, it secured Weihaiwei in Shandong in the north as a base for operations against the Germans in Qingdao (Tsingtao) and the Russians in Port Arthur. Chinese officials stayed in the walled cities of Kowloon City and Weihaiwei. The extension of Kowloon was called the New Territories. The additional land

1053-631: The mainland north of the Kowloon Ranges and south of the Sham Chun River, as well as the Outlying Islands. It comprises an area of 952 square kilometres (368 sq mi). Nevertheless, New Kowloon has remained statutorily part of the New Territories instead of Kowloon. The New Territories were leased from Qing China by the United Kingdom in 1898 for 99 years in the Second Convention of Peking (The Convention for

1092-538: The resistance Kat Hing Wai , of the Tang clan , was symbolically disarmed, by having its main gates dismounted and removed. However, in order to prevent future resistance the British made concessions to the indigenous inhabitants with regards to land use, land inheritance and marriage laws; the majority of which remained in place into the 1960s when polygamy was outlawed. Some of the concessions with regard to land use and inheritance remain in place in Hong Kong to this day and

1131-437: The ridge surrounding Kowloon , visible from much of urban Hong Kong, but was ultimately deemed to damage the beauty and the fungshui of Victoria Harbour . Planning for a major development of the 40-hectare site (called 'ARQ' or 'ARQS') for around 9400 private and subsidised housing flats serving a residential population of 25,000 is in progress. The development is expected to accept its first residents in 2023–24. The road

1170-564: The surrounding area, Tiu Keng Leng could be reached by the winding, hilly and narrow Po Lam Road South , which ran past numerous busy quarries. At that time, Tiu Keng Leng's only public transport connections were Kowloon Motor Bus routes 90 and 290, served with minibuses , and by water transport. In 2001, with the redevelopment, a segment of Po Lam Road South was rebuilt and extended to near Kwong Tin Estate in Yau Tong . The reconstructed road

1209-586: The top of Devil's Peak and ended near Sam Ka Tsun (present-day Sam Ka Tsuen ). This road section later partly overlapped with the Stage 3 of Wilson Trail , and part of the final section to Sam Ka Tsuen is now an access road to the Junk Bay Chinese Permanent Cemetery . The road was described in military materials as "a road suitable for manhandled guns". In 1950s, when the Hong Kong Government sent Kuomintang refugees to

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1248-479: Was ceded to Britain in 1842 and Kowloon south of Boundary Street and Stonecutters Island in 1860. The colony of Hong Kong attracted a large number of Chinese and Westerners to seek their fortune in the city. Its population increased rapidly and the city became overcrowded. The outbreak of bubonic plague in 1894 became a concern to the Hong Kong Government . There was a need to expand the colony to accommodate its growing population. The Qing Dynasty 's defeat in

1287-505: Was estimated to be 365 square miles (950 km ) or 12 times the size of the existing Colonial Hong Kong at the time. Although the convention was signed on the 9 June 1898 and became effective on 1 July, the British did not take over the New Territories immediately. During this period, there was no Hong Kong Governor and Wilsone Black acted as administrator. James Stewart Lockhart , the Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong ,

1326-539: Was not received favourably and the Chinese official suggested the frontier be moved to the hill much further south of the Sham Chun River. It was settled in March 1899 that the boundary remain at the Sham Chun River. The new Hong Kong Governor, Henry Blake arrived in November 1898. The date for the takeover of the New Territories was fixed as 17 April 1899, and Tai Po was chosen as the administrative centre. The transfer

1365-676: Was not smooth and peaceful. In early April 1899, Captain Superintendent of Police, Francis Henry May and some policemen erected a flagstaff and temporary headquarters at Tai Po and posted the Governor's proclamation of the takeover date. Fearing for their traditional land rights, in the Six-Day War of 1899 , a number of clans attempted to resist the British, mobilising clan militias that had been organised and armed to protect against longshore raids by pirates. The militia men attempted

1404-524: Was renamed O King Road and became the first road connection to modern Tiu Keng Leng. Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel , opened in 2022, provides a direct and fast route into Kowloon and the city centre. The various centres of Tseung Kwan O were always intended to be served primarily by the MTR metro system, and the 2002 opening of Tiu Keng Leng station of the Tseung Kwan O line and Kwun Tong line provided

1443-440: Was sent back from England to make a survey of New Territories before formal transfer. The survey found that the new frontier at Sham Chun River (Shenzhen river) suggested by Wilsone Black was far from ideal. It excluded the town of Shenzhen (Sham Chun), and the boundary would divide the town. There was no mountain range as a natural border. Lockhart suggested moving the frontier to the line of hills north of Shenzhen. This suggestion

1482-629: Was the only link to Po Lam until the Tseung Kwan O Tunnel was opened in 1990. Nowadays, although Po Lam Road is no longer the main road to Tseung Kwan O, some bus routes from Tseung Kwan O still use Po Lam Road. Only a few stores, farmland, the quarry and warehouses are located beside the road. Haven of Hope Sunnyside School is sited at the Po Lam end of the road. Since the 1996 cancellation of KMB Bus Route 90 ( Tiu Keng Leng <-> Choi Hung ), no public transport routes use Anderson Road. However, buses via Po Lam Road and Clear Water Bay Road include

1521-555: Was to settle these refugees temporarily before they would be repatriated to Taiwan by the Kuomintang or to mainland China by the Chinese Communists . But this day never came for the Kuomintang (under the auspices of a political-oriented charitable body named Free China Relief Association which became prominent after the government suspended food ration in 1953), the residents of the enclave became more supportive to

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