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| Traditional Chinese | 中英街 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中英街 | ||||||||||||||||
| Literal meaning | Sino-British Street | ||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 中興街 | ||||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 中兴街 | ||||||||||||||||
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Chung Ying Street (Chinese:中英街) is a street on theborder between Hong Kong andShenzhen, within theborder town ofSha Tau Kok (Hong Kong) andShatoujiao (Shenzhen).[1] One side of the street belongs to Hong Kong and the other belongs to mainland China.
InCantonese,Chung means China andYing England or the United Kingdom. The name is a mark of history of theSecond Convention of Peking, a treaty that China under theQing dynasty was forced to leaseNew Territories to Britain in 1899.
The street was a river in 1899, and the British used thehigh water mark as the border. The river was too shallow at the section of Sha Tau Kok. It dried before the coming ofWorld War II. The residents on both dried river sides then erected their shops to trade. The dried river then renamed toChung Hing Street (traditional Chinese:中興街;simplified Chinese:中兴街), and later renamed toChung Ying Street.
The town of Sha Tau Kok flourished for that period of time. After World War II, with large influx of refugees from China, the British colonial government decided to close the border and the town fell within theFrontier Closed Area. The border town declined since then.
Chung Ying Street was once a famous place for shopping. In the 1990s, when China was still closed to the world, Chinese tourists visited to buy foreign goods, mostly watches, clothing and jewellery. However, the prosperity has declined in the early 21st century, due to a policy allowing most people from Mainland China to apply to visit Hong Kong directly, causing Chung Ying Street to transform into a place for historical sight-seeing.[2] The PRC government has built a museum about the history of Chung Ying Street to attract tourists again.
The Hong Kong Government website states access to the street from Hong Kong is only permitted under certain circumstances, based on need.[3]
Residents of mainland China can gain access by buying an organised tour ticket from the tour operator at the Chung Ying Street entrance in Shenzhen. Since 2018, there is no longer a fee associated with visiting Chung Ying Street, but tourists still need to make an appointment in advance and visit within restricted opening hours of a day.[4]
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