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Tuen Mun New Town

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SAR
  
Hong Kong

Time zone
  
Hong Kong Time (UTC+8)

Population
  
486,000 (2012)

District
  
Tuen Mun District

Area
  
19 km²

Tuen Mun New Town

Website
  
www.districtcouncils.gov.hk/tm/tc

Weather
  
16°C, Wind NE at 11 km/h, 63% Humidity

Tuen Mun New Town (Chinese: 屯門新市鎮) is a new town developed by Hong Kong Government in Tuen Mun, New Territories, Hong Kong in the 1970s. At the time of planning in 1965, the satellite town, as new towns were then known, was named Castle Peak.

The development model is similar to Sha Tin New Town, constructed around a town centre (Tuen Mun Town Centre).

However, jobs and public facilities in the town are inadequate, just as in Tin Shui Wai New Town, certain social problems like low income, juvenile problems, drug abuse, controversies in use of public places, such as noise problems due to playing musical instruments in Tuen Mun Town Park.

References

Tuen Mun New Town Wikipedia