While some communities are having to make way for megaproject, the pace has been slow. Observers are wondering if it will pick up after the policy address, even as government vows to protect indigenous villages
With Hong Kong leader John Lee set to deliver his annual policy address on September 17, the Post examines key topics the chief executive is expected to focus on, including a mega infrastructure project near the border, new economic drivers and livelihood issues.
In the first of a seven-part series, Vivian Au finds out how villagers and businesses are surviving in an area the government has promised to transform into a new economic engine.
Fish farmer Kwok Chi-yau has spent more than half a decade in a quiet corner of Hong Kong, a rural area set against the backdrop of mountains in the New Territories.
Kwok, a leading entrepreneur managing eight fish ponds with 28,000 fish on a 1.8 million sq ft site in San Tin, said the unique environment, with brackish water, created the perfect habitat.
