Sheung Shui

Proper noun

Sheung Shui

1. An area and town in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.
   • Fan Ling has produced no holder of senior official titles. It makes a remote claim to official status from the achievement of an ancestor in the Song dynasty, whose portrait decorates one of the matsheds set up at the ta-tsiu.³¹ However, in the nineteenth century, it was included among the five...1986, David Faure, “Villages and Village Clusters”, in The Structure of Chinese Rural Society: Lineage and Village in the Eastern New Territories, Hong Kong (East Asian Historical Monographs), Oxford...
   • Although a slowing economy and campaigns against extravagant consumption by government officials have hurt most luxury shopping hubs in Hong Kong, business has been booming in the New Territories. This is especially true along the East Rail Line, which links China with Hong Kong and runs through...
   • One major initiative, the Northeast New Territories New Development Areas, involves building more than 60,000 apartments for about 175,000 people by 2022 and merging the towns of Sheung Shui and Fanling into a town of 500,000. It is projected to cost $15.5 billion.2014 June 10, Chris Horton, “Chinese Shoppers Change Hong Kong Border Area”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 Jun 2014, Commercial Real Estate
2. A rural committee in North district, New Territories, Hong Kong.