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《香港志·總述 大事記》（公元前 5000 年至 2017 年，共 6,500 多條大事） Hong Kong Chronicles: Overview and Chronology (c. 5000 BC–2017, over 6,500 events)
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《香港志·自然》自然環境 Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Natural Environment
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In May 1949, the first batch of wooden huts was completed in the Mount Davis bungalow area for poor residents whose huts had been demolished or burned down to apply for; this area, designated by the Hong Kong government and built with loans provided by the Chung Sing Benevolent Society, was the government's first housing project for resettling the poor and was renamed Citizen Village after 1952.
On 8 May 1949, the Hong Kong Chinese Reform Association was founded jointly by Ma Man-fai, Chen Pi-shi and Mok Ying-kwai, among others, and advocated a narrowly based elected system.
China Dyeing Works Group Limited was founded by Cha Chi-ming on 24 May 1949, and in the same year established a dyeing and bleaching factory on Castle Peak Road in Tsuen Wan.
On 25 May 1949, all employees of the Mei Ah Silk Weaving Factory launched a strike; previously, the employer had drafted a new employment contract that was opposed by workers over pay and working conditions, and on the 11th of the same month dismissed Lau Chung-ping, chairman of the Kowloon and Hong Kong Silk Industry General Union and workers' representative.
On 27 May 1949, the Education Department announced plans to establish two workers' children schools in Wan Chai and Hung Hom to admit students from Hong Kong and Kowloon workers' schools, and required existing workers' schools to close, triggering a school protection movement in the labour sector.
