Hong Kong, the world's most - Preview Bowen

Hong Kong, the world's most January 14, 2009



Hong Kong International Airport Hong Kong International Airport is one of the busiest airports in the world, the daily average of about 270 scheduled flights, 31,596 passengers arrival, and from about 130 locations worldwide. 2000, a total of 3,210 million passengers (not including the 1.24 million passengers). The airport handled a total of 2.24 million tonnes of cargo, worth 8,622 billion HK dollars (1,105 billion).

the world's largest airport terminal building

Hong Kong International Airport passenger terminal, covering 550,000 square meters, length 1.3 km, was included in the 1998 \

2002 Global Airport

2002 the most outstanding outstanding year full cargo airport

the world's largest single air cargo terminal

Super Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited Terminal One, is the largest single air cargo terminal, it can handle up to 2.1 million tonnes of cargo.



Asia's Best Airline Cathay Pacific selected as 2002 Best Airline in Asia.

the world's latest and one of the youngest fleets

Cathay Pacific's fleet is the world's newest and one of the youngest fleet, the average age of only seven years.

the world's largest aircraft catering kitchen

one of Cathay Pacific Catering Services Ltd. is the world's largest aircraft catering kitchen, one can produce up to 80,000 copies a day of food.

international shipping

total of five Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway extension, the whole length of 82.4 km, 44 stations, of which 30 were in 14 to 37 meters deep underground. To January 2001, the MTR carried 2.2 million passengers daily average.

* world's busiest underground railway systems in the world

* the world can make money one of two underground railway system



the Kowloon-Canton Railway Kowloon-Canton Railway is the world's busiest cross-border railways in the world, the year 2000, a total of 289 million passenger trips between Lo Wu KCR, Kowloon, New Territories new towns and the city center, carrying 768,000 passengers a day on average.

the world's busiest border crossings

one of the Lo Wu Control Point is the world's busiest border crossings is one of over 8,650 million passengers in 2000 between Hong Kong via Lo Wu and Shenzhen.

Star Ferry

the most value for money travel sea tourism, is priced at only 2.2 Hong Kong dollars (30 U.S. cents). In 2000, the Star Ferry carrying almost 72,000 passengers a day.

tram

is the world's only double-power team, opened in 1904, drive 16 km length, a total of 161 trams in 2001 to 24 million passengers a day to provide services.

Kowloon Motor Bus Co., Ltd.

the world's largest private franchised bus companies, with 4,320 buses, the daily patronage of 302 million.

transport infrastructure

pedestrian Central to Mid-Levels Escalator

the world's longest covered escalator system, every day for free for the public and visitors to and from Central to Mid-Levels length of 800 meters, can be converted by the 20 one-way direction of the lift and three pedestrian transportation system components, the maximum daily capacity of up to 210,600 people.

red? Harbour Tunnel

the world's busiest four-lane immersed tube tunnel, one of red? Harbour Crossing Kowloon Hung? and Causeway Bay on Hong Kong Island, in 2000 the average daily Nearly 120,350 vehicles use the tunnel car.



Tsing Ma Bridge, the world's longest road and rail suspension bridge, linking Lantau and Kowloon Peninsula, length 2.2 km, 62 meters high from the sea surface, the concrete bridge towers 206 meters high, with The suspension cable wire total length of 160,000 kilometers, structural steel weighing up to 5 million tonnes, Sea some 1,377 meters long, was included in \Community Awards. \Cost of 7.144 billion Hong Kong dollars, which lasted five years completed.

Kap Shui Mun Bridge

the world's longest and largest of the three bridges one tower cable-stayed bridges cable length of 1,177 meters.



global public housing building one of the highest penetration rate of about 600,000, accounting for one third of the overall housing.



the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, the world's and Asia's largest convention and exhibition facilities in a cost of 4.8 billion Hong Kong dollars (6.15 billion U.S. dollars).

skyscraper

world 15 tallest buildings in Hong Kong accounted for 4

* Two International Finance Centre, Central Plaza

*: F 78-story high, 374 meters, completed in 1992

* Bank of China Tower: tall 70 floor, 369 meters, completed in 1989

* The Center: 79-storey level, 350 meters, completed in 1998



the most popular tourist destination city, the total number of visitors in 2001 a new high, up to 1,370 million.

BBC elected: 2002 the world's best cities in the fifth.

BBC selected: world's most popular tourist areas in 2002 the first Nianer place.

the world's most important wetland, one of the northwest of Hong Kong Mai Po and Inner Deep Bay, a total of 1,500 hectares of wetlands in September 1995, was officially listed as \1. Mai Po, Hong Kong's, it is rare in South China's natural ecosystem.

protected country park area ratio highest in the world since the 1970s, nearly 40% of the planned total area of country parks.

one of the world's oldest and largest tree planting and conservation programs. As of 2000/2001, Hong Kong's country parks, planted 643,044 trees around the country parks as many as 1,110 million people, and more than 235,000 people who were involved in the Country Park to be held in the conservation education activities.

the world's largest non-profit Jockey Club, Hong Kong Jockey Club will be incorporated into the \

the world's largest LED Racecourse (LED) large screen, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Racecourse in 2001 installed a height of 8 meters, 35 meters wide, covering an area equivalent to about 2,000 Department of 21? TV.

largest hotel murals, Island Shangri-La Hotel one called \

the world's largest bronze Buddha statue Buddha statue at Po Lin Monastery

next to start in 1990, in December 1993 opening of Buddha 26 meters high and weighs 220 tonnes, sitting on the 268 level of the stone steps on the solemn sitting of the Buddha, almost regardless of a distance, look, \

one of the world's largest marine park, Ocean Park Hong Kong covers an area of 170 acres.

order

the lowest crime rate cities in the world, in January 2002 figures show 10 people occurred 1,084.5 crime.

world's first independent body established to combat corruption in the city, even by the United Nations award in 2001.



the world of international relations with foreign consulates in most cities, the existing presence of the consulate around 91.

Education and Culture

global free education one of the highest penetration rate.

the highest prevalence of global education city, from 2000 to 2001 school year, approximately 1.3 million students to study from kindergarten to tertiary institutions of formal education, representing about 20% of the total population, and there are 552,160 people in spare continuing education.

average daily rate was highest in the world the newspaper, \

film output fourth globally in 2000, Hong Kong, second only to India, the United States and Japan, to calculate per capita output is highest in the world.

Chinese programming highest in the world, TVB produced more than 15,000 hours of programming, through the Jade and Pearl both Chinese and English channels, free delivery to Hong Kong more than 2.05 million households.

the world's largest professional Chinese Orchestra, the Orchestra has a total membership of 85, playing all kinds of traditional and modern Chinese musical instruments.

the world's largest fruit import region.

entrance region the world's largest shark fin.

health and medical

global free health care system one of the highest rates

global average life expectancy of one of the longest, the United Nations \Hong Kong, average male life expectancy was 76.7 years and for women 82.2 years.

global infant mortality rate of the lowest cities in 2000, per 1,000 births, only 2.9 died.

business and economic

attract foreign direct investment in Asia, the largest region, the United Nations Commission on Trade and Development published the \dollar, beyond the mainland of China.

world's freest economy by the Heritage Foundation and the \

the world's most competitive business environments, the Harvard Institute for International Development, the World Economic Forum, the International Institute for Management Development, and the \business environments.

representative offices of international banks worldwide one of the largest,zero skateboards, in the end of September 2001, there were 149 licensed banks, 48 restricted license banks and 55 deposit-taking companies. Representative offices of foreign banks in Hong Kong a total of 114.

clothing, textiles, clocks, jewelry, shoes and other goods exports, ranks second.

printing ranks fourth; second in Asia after Japan.

advertising expenditure per capita, the highest in Asia 2000, Hong Kong's total expenditure on advertising reached 3.538 billion U.S. dollars (276 billion).

one of the world's lowest tax, profit tax is 16%, but after deducting depreciation allowances and lower tax paid in real terms. The maximum personal income tax rate is 15%.

the world's ninth largest economy

the world's seventh largest foreign exchange market

ninth largest stock market

tenth largest trading center for foreign banks

communication

wireless world has the highest rate of per capita area, the United Nations \

the world's second most frequent Internet users access the Internet, the Internet market research firm NetValue survey shows that per capita time spent online per week, the per capita time spent online per week, 12.1 hours after the first one in South Korea 18.1 hours, 10.8 hours more than the United States, Singapore, 9.9 hours, 9.0 hours in Taiwan, and Mexico's 8.7 hours.

the world one of the highest telephone density, as of December 2001, an average of every 100 people 74 or 59 phone lines, 4.94 million telephone connections more than 3.93 million telephone lines.

the highest penetration rates worldwide fax and one of the fastest growing areas, in December 2001, per 100 business telephone line, about 23.3 fax lines, a total of 411,south indian cooking,099 facsimile telephone lines.

global per capita usage as one of the highest in the year 2000 to 2001, Hong Kong's external communication time of 5.025 billion minutes, which make a call time of up to 3.142 billion minutes, up to 1.883 billion minutes allocated time; telex communication time nearly 5.459 million minutes (of which 2.961 million minutes set aside, 2,498,000 minutes allocated); sent and received over 24,500 telegrams.

the world's most comprehensive fiber optic telecommunications network, 98% of all commercial buildings and residential broadband Internet service available.

world's first fully digital telecommunications network has covered the city, since 1993, Hong Kong's digital telecommunications lines has been maintained at 100% coverage level.

up the world's fourth largest deal Speedpost postal sector, Hongkong Post is the first to provide one of the Speedpost service.