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Cheung Sha Wan (長沙灣;Chèuhngsāwàahn; 'Long Sandy Bay') is an area betweenLai Chi Kok andSham Shui Po inNew Kowloon,Hong Kong. It is mainly residential to the north and south, with an industrial area in between. Administratively it is part ofSham Shui Po District, which also includesLai Chi Kok.

The灣 in its Cantonese name would normally be pronounced aswāan with a first, high-flat tone; however, in this particular case, the tone shifts to a fourth, low-falling tone, making itwàahn instead. The same tone shift happens in the Cantonese names ofTo Kwa Wan (土瓜灣;Tóugwāwàahn) andCauseway Bay (銅鑼灣;Tùhnglòhwàahn), thoughTùhnglòhwāan with a first tone is also common.^{[original research?]}

As its Cantonese name suggests, it was formerly a bay with a long sandy beach. It spans roughly from today'sButterfly Valley Road at the west toYen Chow Street at the east. The beach was a gathering place for manyTanka fishermen before its development. The original shoreline approximates the presentCastle Peak Road and Un Chau Street. Inland, villages of Om Yam, Ma Lung Hang, Pak Shu Lung,So Uk, Li Uk, Wong Uk and others sparsely occupied the whole bay of Cheung Sha Wan. Rivers fromBeacon Hill,Crow's Nest andPiper's Hill formed a long plain behind the beach. Farmlands filled between villages. A larger river ran inButterfly Valley separating Cheung Sha Wan andLai Chi Kok. Asandbar was found at the mouth of itsestuary.

TheLei Cheng Uk Han Tomb is located in Cheung Sha Wan, and dates from AD 25 - 220. It is the oldest known constructed structure in Hong Kong, and demonstrates that early Chinese civilisation had spread to Hong Kong by 2,000 years ago.

At the time of the 1911 census, the population of Cheung Sha Wan was 653. The number of males was 496.^[1]

BeforeWorld War I, two ends, Lai Chi Kok and Sham Shui Po, of Cheung Sha Wan had been reclaimed. The former was for military use and the later emerged as a new town north ofTai Kok Tsui.

In April 2006, a total of 580 unused shells from theJapanese occupation of Hong Kong were found buried atTonkin Street in Cheung Sha Wan. The residents were temporarily evacuated and the shells were detonated safely.

The bay of Cheung Sha Wan was reclaimed in several phases in the twentieth century. The last reclamation in 1990s extended the area close toStonecutters Island. The shipbuilding and repair industries on the old shore were moved to near the island and the sites were replaced by someprivate housing estates constructed in the early 2000s.

Cheung Sha Wan was a manufacturing centre after the war, with a number of light industries, especiallytextile andclothing. After thePRC implemented itsopen door policy in the 1980s, many factories relocated to the mainland, vacating the area's industrial buildings (some of which have since been converted into offices and warehouses). There are severalwholesale markets in Cheung Sha Wan. They include Cheung San Wan Temporary Wholesale Poultry Market, Cheung Sha Wan Vegetable Wholesale Market and manywholesale clothes markets. The Vegetable Marketing Organisation's Premium Vegetable Packaging Centre also locates in central Cheung Sha Wan.

The head office ofGiordano is in the Tin On Industrial Building, Cheung Sha Wan.^[2]

Several of theprivate housing estates were built on a former site of ashipyard which was relocated owing to the commencement of theWest Kowloon Reclamation, or reclaimed land adjacent to it.

Four private housing estates are collectively known as the "Four Little Dragons of West Kowloon" (Chinese:西九四小龍) because each of them are similar in scale and they are located next to each other.^[3]

• Aqua Marine (碧海藍天;Bīkhói Làahmtīn; 'Jade Sea and a Blue Sky') is aprivate housing estate developed on thereclaimed land byHang Lung Properties andKorean-basedHyundai Engineering and Construction.^[4] It comprises 5 residential towers and retail podium completed in 2003.^[5]
• Banyan Garden (泓景臺;Wàhnggíngtòih) consists of seven towers. Each of the tallest towers (tower 2, 6 and 7) has 57 floors and the roof height is 191 m (627 ft). They are among thetallest buildings in Hong Kong and the100 tallest residential buildings in the world since the complex was completed in 2003.^[6]
• Liberté (昇悅居;Sīng'yuhtgēui) consists of seven residential towers,^[7] five of which rank among the 100 tallest buildings in the territory. Towers 1, 2 and 3 each rise 181 m (594 ft),^[8][9][10] towers 5 and 6 rise 180 m (591 ft)^[11][12] The complex was completed in late 2003.^[13]
• The Pacifica (宇晴軒;Yúhchìhnghīn) complex consists of approximately 2,000 condominiums in six residential towers,^[14] each of which rank among the 70 tallest buildings in the city. The towers, numbered 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, each rise 197 m (646 ft) and 50-66 floors,^{[15][16][17][18]} Construction began in 2002 and the complex was completed in 2006.^[19]

A new public housing estate namedHoi Lai Estate (formerly named Hoi Lai Court before the government turned it into a public housing estate) is located in the area and had the most expensive rental fees within theSham Shui Po District.

Cheung Sha Wan is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 40. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money) and two government schools: Fuk Wing Street Government Primary School and Li Cheng Uk Government Primary School.^[20]

The area is served by two stations onMTRTsuen Wan line:

• Cheung Sha Wan station in the east and,
• Lai Chi Kok station in the west.

Lai Chi Kok station is actually located not in Lai Chi Kok, but in Cheung Sha Wan. The fact that references to Cheung Sha Wan can be found on many buildings and amenities near Lai Chi Kok station continues to be a source of confusion for many.

These bus routes terminate in Cheung Sha Wan, but onCheung Sha Wan Road,Lai Chi Kok Road andCastle Peak Road there are many more routes that are available.

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