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Tsuen Wan

Tsuen Wan (Pinyin

Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Quanwan, formerly also Tsun Wan) is a bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays generally have calm waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some ocean surface wave and often reducing winds....
in the New Territories

New Territories

New Territories, abbreviated to NT or N.T., is a region in Hong Kong excluding Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Stonecutters Island. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory....
, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, opposite to Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel is a channel in Hong Kong that separates Tsing Yi Island from mainland Kowloon Peninsula, namely Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung in the New Territories....
. A market town of the Tsuen Wan emerged for the surrounding villages and fleets of fishing boats in the area. The town is around the present-day Tsuen Wan Station

Tsuen Wan (MTR)

Tsuen Wan is the northern List of Hong Kong MTR stations of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is located at the north-central part of Tsuen Wan new town, and its next station is Tai Wo Hau ....
of the MTR

MTR

MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. The MTR first began service in 1979 and officially merged with the Kowloon Canton Railway on 2 December 2007, still bearing the same name in English....
. It was extended as far as the reclamation

Land reclamation

Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. One involves creating new land from sea- or riverbeds, the other refers to restoring an area to a more natural state ....
proceeded.

History
One museum of old local settlement village is located at Tsuen Wan, named "Sam Tung Uk Museum".

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Tsuen Wan (Pinyin
Pinyin

Pinyin, more formally Hanyu pinyin, is the most commonly used Romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu is the Chinese Language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"....
: Quanwan, formerly also Tsun Wan) is a bay
Bay

A bay is an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays generally have calm waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some ocean surface wave and often reducing winds....
in the New Territories
New Territories

New Territories, abbreviated to NT or N.T., is a region in Hong Kong excluding Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and Stonecutters Island. Historically, it is the region described in The Convention for the Extension of Hong Kong Territory....
, Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
, opposite to Tsing Yi Island across Rambler Channel
Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel is a channel in Hong Kong that separates Tsing Yi Island from mainland Kowloon Peninsula, namely Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung in the New Territories....
. A market town of the Tsuen Wan emerged for the surrounding villages and fleets of fishing boats in the area. The town is around the present-day Tsuen Wan Station
Tsuen Wan (MTR)

Tsuen Wan is the northern List of Hong Kong MTR stations of the MTR in Hong Kong. It is located at the north-central part of Tsuen Wan new town, and its next station is Tai Wo Hau ....
of the MTR
MTR

MTR, or Mass Transit Railway, is the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong. The MTR first began service in 1979 and officially merged with the Kowloon Canton Railway on 2 December 2007, still bearing the same name in English....
. It was extended as far as the reclamation
Land reclamation

Land reclamation is either of two distinct practices. One involves creating new land from sea- or riverbeds, the other refers to restoring an area to a more natural state ....
proceeded.

History

One museum of old local settlement village is located at Tsuen Wan, named "Sam Tung Uk Museum". The museum is an effort to preserve one of the heritaged village in Hong Kong when Tsuen Wan was undergone urban development during the contruction of MTR.

In earlier days, it was known as Tsin Wan which means shallow bay, and later renamed to Tsuen Wan. Another name Tsak Wan (??,?????Hakka dialect pronunciation: tshet wan), secret bay, indicates the presence of pirates nearby long ago. In fact, the area around Rambler Channel
Rambler Channel

Rambler Channel is a channel in Hong Kong that separates Tsing Yi Island from mainland Kowloon Peninsula, namely Tsuen Wan and Kwai Chung in the New Territories....
was known as Sam Pak Tsin, literally meaning three hundred coins. There was a legend that pirates would collect three hundred coins should one pass through the area.

Development
Apart from a market town, in 20th century, factories moved in gradually for its proximity to the urban in Kowloon
Kowloon

Kowloon refers to an urban area in Hong Kong made up of Kowloon Peninsula and New Kowloon, bordered by the Lei Yue Mun strait in the east, Mei Foo Sun Chuen and Stonecutters Island in the west, Tate's Cairn and Lion Rock in the north, and Victoria Harbour in the south....
. With construction of Castle Peak Road
Castle Peak Road

Castle Peak Road is the longest road in Hong Kong. It runs from Kowloon to the very north of the New Territories, serving south, west and north New Territories....
, motor vehicles could reach the town in addition to on foot and by boat. In 1950s, the Hong Kong Government developed the area with new town
New town

A new town, planned community or planned city is a city, town, or community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed in a previously undeveloped area....
concepts. In the 1970s it was developed as part of the Tsuen Wan New Town
Tsuen Wan New Town

Tsuen Wan New Town is a new town in Hong Kong. It spans over Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung and Tsing Yi Island. Traditionally, the officials of Tsuen Wan managed the area of proper Tsuen Wan, Kwai Chung, Tsing Yi Island, Ma Wan and Northeast Lantau Island....
. By 1971 the area housed 400,000 residents. It was one of the last area in Hong Kong to be developed without the "Colony Outline Plan".

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