The geography and history of Deep Water?

Sham Shui Po District According to the research of the Lei Cheng Uk Ancient Tomb unearthed in 1955, people have settled in Sham Shui Po District as far back as the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, from 25 to 220 AD. Before 1898, Sham Shui Po belonged to Xin'an County in China. It mainly consisted of four villages: Jiu Wah Trail, Cheung Sha Wan, Sham Shui Po and Kowloon Tong. The population was about 3,000 people. They mainly relied on farming, fishing, and shipping goods to make a living. The largest village among them was Sham Shui Po, which was also the market at that time. The name "Sham Shui Po" comes from a deep water pier located at the junction of today's Pei Ho Street and Tong Chow Street. ("?" is the same as "Port", which means wharf in dialect.) In the 18th and 19th centuries, due to the defeat of the Qing Dynasty in the Second Opium War, Stonecutters Island, located to the west of Sham Shui Po, together with the Kowloon Peninsula (boundary) South of the Street), ceded to the British in 1860. In 1898, the then Qing government agreed to lease the area north of Kowloon Boundary Street to the Shenzhen River to Britain for 99 years. Sham Shui Po has been gradually developed with the development of Kowloon urban area. Between 1900 and 1920, most residents of Sham Shui Po were engaged in farming, flower gardening and fishing. After 1920, due to overseas Chinese investment, more modern industry and commerce spread from the coastal area to Lai Chi Kok, including textiles, clothing, hardware and enamel. World War II The Pacific War broke out in December 1941, and the Japanese army captured Hong Kong, China, in more than ten days. The Sham Shui Po Military Camp at that time became a concentration camp for prisoners of war. Due to insufficient food and poor environment, beriberi and dysentery were rampant in the camp, and many prisoners of war died because they failed to receive appropriate diagnosis and treatment. Postwar Years The Anti-Japanese War ended in 1945, and the population of Hong Kong, China, began to increase. After 1949, a large number of immigrants from mainland China entered Hong Kong, resulting in a sharp increase in the number of residents in Sham Shui Po, resulting in a serious problem of unauthorized wooden houses. At the end of 1953, the largest fire in Hong Kong's history broke out in the Shek Kip Mei wooden house area, and more than 50,000 residents lost their homes. *** In order to resettle the victims, Shek Kip Mei Village was built and became the first public housing estate in Hong Kong, China. On July 22, 1954, another fire broke out in the Tai Hang Tung wooden house area, destroying more than 2,000 houses and leaving 24,000 people homeless. *** Tai Hang Tung Village was built to accommodate the victims. In the 1960s, industrial development in the area became increasingly prosperous, and various public housing estates and private buildings were completed one after another. In the early 1980s, the population of Sham Shui Po was close to 500,000, making it the most densely populated area in Hong Kong at that time. Recent and future developments According to the results of the 2004 census, the population of Sham Shui Po District is approximately 360,000, accounting for 5.3% of the total population of Hong Kong. The West Kowloon Reclamation Project has provided approximately 165 hectares of land to Sham Shui Po District for the construction of private buildings, public housing, and commercial development. It is expected that the population in the area will increase. As the Urban Renewal Authority and the Hong Kong Housing Society carry out a number of urban renewal projects in the area, Sham Shui Po will surely have a new scene in the future. The West Kowloon Expressway and the Airport Railway connecting Hong Kong International Airport in Chek Lap Kok to the city also pass through the reclamation area. A large open space across Nam Cheong Street has been developed to serve as a buffer zone between the residential area and the West Kowloon Expressway. The West Rail is a 31-kilometer long passenger route connecting Yuen Long and Tuen Mun in the northwest New Territories with the urban area of ??Kowloon. It passes through the West Kowloon Reclamation Area and has two stations in Sham Shui Po, namely Nam Cheong Station and Mei Foo Station.

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