Small stadium “mosaic” is in the downtown — see the details of Hong Kong’s fifth
Xinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, January 30th question: the small Stadium is “inlaid” in the downtown-see the details of Hong Kong’s fifth
Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang Yijuan Zhangying
The north side is Hennessy Road, and the south side is close to Wan Chai Road, on the left and right sides are 20-storey high-rise buildings respectively. Between the “cracks” of the road and the high-rise buildings, the “frame” has a straight basketball court. Young people playing basketball can be seen here from morning till night. Especially at the dawn of the night, the warm atmosphere of you fighting for me on the court attracted many pedestrians to stop.
In Hong Kong, there are countless sports places like this, which are “inlaid” in the downtown like pin.
Starting from Elizabeth stadium located in the east of Queen’s Road, the reporter found nearly 10 sports venues within half an hour’s radius.
Among these sports fields, the largest and most complete facilities are all kinds of recreational facilities in Victoria Park, including swimming pools, tennis courts and main venues that can hold large-scale events, as well as 13 standard tennis courts, six hard-Ground 7-person football fields and four outdoor basketball courts, two grass rolling courts with 12 artificial grass lanes, two squash courts, one hand Court and one roller-skating rink, as well as fitness and slow running, children’s playground, model boat pool and other facilities.
The most characteristic is the Bowen Road Badminton Court: half an acre of Square land in the mountainside, hidden in the dense towering forest. In Aiqun Road, there is also a special skateboard park.
The reason why Hong Kong, with a large population and a small population, has so many sports venues is that the SAR government has detailed and clear regulations on the area and quantity of sports venues. Hong Kong planning standards and guidelines stipulate that every 15000 people in outdoor venues have a tennis court, every 10000 people have a basketball court, every 20,000 people have a volleyball court, every 30000 people have a small football field, it has 300 square meters of track and field field, and 400 square meters of slow running track for every 5,000 people. The requirements of indoor venues are: every 8000 people have a badminton court, every 7500 people have a table tennis table, each sports center must have a table tennis court, a fitness dance Court, etc.
The head of the planning department of the SAR government told the reporter that when planning a new town, he would make a comprehensive plan by referring to the Hong Kong planning standards and guidelines and the opinions of relevant departments, carefully consider the distribution and location of various sports facilities to meet the needs of residents in the whole new town and the future population, and ensure that residents in the area can easily use relevant facilities.
Miss Ding, who runs in Victoria Park every week, is very satisfied with the sports venues in Hong Kong: “Compared with the mainland, there are not only many sports fields in Hong Kong, but also more humanized and standardized, people will use sports facilities according to the rules, which is very orderly.”
According to the data provided by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department of the SAR government, from 2014 to 2016, the average utilization rate of Hong Kong sports ground reached 99%. In 2016, the stadium in the islands with the lowest utilization rate also reached 94%. According to a survey conducted by the Hong Kong political League and the People’s Federation of Civil construction in July 2018, 80% of the interviewees have exercise habits, of which have exercise for more than one hour a week.
Most outdoor sports venues in Hong Kong are free of charge, and the prices of a few paid venues are also very friendly to the people. The price of the natatorium in Hong Kong is uniform, with 17 Hong Kong dollars for adults and 8 Hong Kong dollars for students. Students rent 17 Hong Kong dollars per hour for badminton courts during off-peak hours. The person in charge of the LCSD said that the fees charged could not recover its operating costs, and the insufficient part was made up by the SAR government.