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《香港志·自然》建置與地區概況(人口) Hong Kong Chronicles, Nature: Territory, Geography and Population
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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 1903, the government began resuming land occupied by the original residents of Sham Shui Po, subsequently re-planning the district and carrying out road works.
In 1903, the Hong Kong government took over the land of the original residents of Sham Shui Po, re-planned the district and carried out road construction works.
From the 1910s to the 1930s, reclamation was carried out in Sham Shui Po in phases, and several roads including Un Chau Street, Fuk Wing Street and Cheung Sha Wan Road were opened up.
In 1911, Kowloon District No. VIII covered Sham Shui Po, So Uk, Wong Uk, Shek Kip Mei, Kowloon Tsai, Cheung Sha Wan, Sai Kok and Kowloon Tong, with a population of 6,318.
District 14 included Tai Kok Tsui and Sham Shui Po, with a population of 6,318 in 1911, rising to 67,184 in 1931; its share of Kowloon's total population increased from 9.4% to 25.5%.
According to 1911 data, the area covered by Kowloon Sanitary District No. VIII included Sham Shui Po, Cheung Sha Wan and Kowloon Tong, with a total population of 6,318.
In 1911, the jurisdiction of the South District of the New Territories covered Kowloon City and Sham Shui Po, while Tsuen Wan was assigned to the North District of the New Territories.
In the 1920s, Sham Shui Po was transformed into a district combining modern residential and industrial functions and became Kowloon's population centre.
During the 1920s and 1930s, overseas Chinese returnees from the Siyi region invested capital in Sham Shui Po to develop manufacturing industries such as textiles, garments, metal products and enamelware.
From 1921, the population of Kowloon City and Sham Shui Po was counted under Kowloon, and Tsuen Wan was reassigned to the South District of the New Territories.
On 26 November 1921, the Kowloon Motor Bus Company was announced, initially operating two bus routes, one connecting Tsim Sha Tsui and Sham Shui Po and the other running between Tsim Sha Tsui and Kowloon City.
In 1923, Fung Chau-yu founded Lee Kung Man Knitting Factory Limited, with its factory on Nam Cheong Street in Sham Shui Po, mainly producing knitted underwear and cotton socks.
On 5 November 1923, the Hongkong and Yaumati Ferry Company Limited was incorporated in Hong Kong and from 1 January 1924 operated passenger ferry services between Central and Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok and Yau Ma Tei.
On 11 April 1927, the British forces in Hong Kong formally took over the Nanking and Hankow Barracks built by the Public Works Department in Sham Shui Po; during the Japanese occupation, the site was used as a prisoner-of-war camp.
In August 1938, a national salvation donation campaign called "813" was initiated by mobile hawkers in Sham Shui Po, Kowloon, and its participation steadily expanded, eventually raising as much as one million dollars.
In 1941, using ARP sub-districts as statistical units, Sham Shui Po recorded 172,771 people, a figure accounting for 29.7% of Kowloon's overall population.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lindsay Ride of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, together with Lieutenant-Commander Morley of the Royal Naval Reserve, Lieutenant David Davies and Corporal Li Yiu-biu, first escaped from the Sham Shui Po prisoner-of-war camp and were later assisted by the Guangdong People's Anti-Japanese Guerrilla Force to withdraw from Hong Kong.
During the Japanese occupation, Kowloon had the largest populations in Sham Shui Po (Aoyama district) and Yau Ma Tei (Katori district), and the smallest in Kowloon Tong (Kashima district).
In the early 1950s, squatter settlements formed in the Pak Tin, Wo Chai and Shek Kip Mei areas, and Sham Shui Po was once the largest squatter area in Hong Kong.
On 1 March 1950, the Asia Evening College of Arts and Commerce was renamed New Asia College, moved its campus to Sham Shui Po, and became a school holding classes during the day.
On 4 December 1950, a fire broke out in the squatter area around Lei Cheng Uk in Sham Shui Po, destroying about 1,500 huts and leaving thousands of residents homeless; another 2,419 victims registered at the Sham Shui Po Kaifong Welfare Association.
The yearbook records that New Kowloon was an area designated by the authorities, located north of Boundary Street and covering Kowloon City, Kowloon Tong, Sham Shui Po and Lai Chi Kok.
The yearbook records that Kowloon was customarily divided into districts such as Tsim Sha Tsui, Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Hung Hom, Kowloon City, Kowloon Tong, Sham Shui Po and Lai Chi Kok.
On 22 July 1954, a fire broke out in the squatter area of Tai Hang Tung and Kowloon Tsai in Sham Shui Po, destroying about 3,800 squatter huts, causing nine deaths, and resulting in 14,000 people registering as fire victims.
In 1955, during the construction of Lei Cheng Uk Estate, the Hong Kong Government discovered a brick-structured ancient tomb, now known as the Lei Cheng Uk Han Tomb.
On 11 October 1956, riots and attacks broke out successively in various places in Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok, and Yau Ma Tei; that afternoon, Ernst (Swiss Vice-Consul and Counsellor in Hong Kong) and his wife were travelling by taxi along Tai Po Road when they were surrounded by a rioting crowd, the taxi was overturned and set on fire, Ernst was burned, and his wife and two other persons present were killed.
In September 1957, squatter areas in Lo Fu Ngam, Sham Shui Po, Chai Wan, Hung Hom, and Shau Kei Wan in Kowloon were severely destroyed by Typhoon Gloria.
On 1 August 1962, a tenement building on Un Chau Street in Sham Shui Po caught fire, destroying five dwellings, killing 44 people, four of them pregnant women, and injuring 21 others.
On 16 January 1964, a double-decker bus travelling along Kweilin Street in Sham Shui Po crashed into a two-storey tong lau, causing three deaths and 11 injuries.
From 1968 to 1969, the Hong Kong Government implemented the District Officer scheme, which was the origin of the establishment of Sham Shui Po District.
Under the District Administration Scheme, Kowloon was divided into six districts, covering Yau Ma Tei, Mong Kok, Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin, Kowloon City and Kwun Tong.
From the 1980s, as Hong Kong's manufacturing industry moved to the mainland, the original industrial land in Sham Shui Po was gradually converted to commercial trade and logistics-related uses.
The area covers the Golden Computer Arcade and the Golden Computer Centre, developing into a major distribution hub for electronic products in Hong Kong.
Between 1981 and 2016, in terms of population proportion, the five districts with relatively significant decreases were Kwun Tong, Wong Tai Sin, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City and Yau Tsim Mong.
Between 1981 and 2016, the six districts that recorded a decrease in population were Wan Chai, Central and Western, Sham Shui Po, Kowloon City, Wong Tai Sin and Yau Tsim Mong.
From 1981 to 1982, Hong Kong carried out a territory-wide reorganization of administrative districts, resulting in the formation of 18 districts, one of which was Sham Shui Po District.
In 1981, there were six district administration sub-districts in Kowloon, namely Yau Ma Tei, Wong Tai Sin, Sham Shui Po, Mong Kok, Kwun Tong and Kowloon City.
On 3 June 1982, a mentally abnormal man in Un Chau Estate, Sham Shui Po, first killed his mother and sister at home, then entered the nearby On On Kindergarten with a knife and attacked children, resulting in six deaths and 42 injuries; police arrested him upon arrival.
A man suffering from mental illness killed his mother and sister in Un Chau Estate, Sham Shui Po, then entered On On Kindergarten and attacked young children with a knife, ultimately causing six deaths and 42 injuries.
In July 1995, the Victoria Harbour (Phase Two) Water Control Zone came into effect, covering Sham Shui Po, Yau Ma Tei, Tsim Sha Tsui and other areas, with the water quality objectives taking effect on the same day.