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Shek Mun

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Shek Mun
Traditional ChineseCửa đá
Simplified ChineseCửa đá
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShímén
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutpingsek6 mun4
View of Shek Mun Central Business District from the bridge leading to City One.
Sha Tin Community Green Station.
The Jockey Club Kitchee Centre, a football training field managed byKitchee Sports Club.
The Ravana Garden housing estate in Shek Mun, and theStar Seafood Floating Restaurant,viewed across theShing Mun River.

Shek Mun(Chinese:Cửa đá) is an industrial and financial area inSha Tin City,New TerritoriesofHong Kong.

Shek Mun lies just east of theShing Mun River,and northeast of theCity Oneapartment and shopping complex.

Housing

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Shek Mun Estateis apublic housing estatein Shek Mun, completed in 2009.

Yu Tak Court[zh]is a housing estate in Shek Mun, completed in 2022.

Private housing estatesin Shek Mun includes:Ravana Garden[zh](Tân cảnh hoa viên),Garden Vista[zh-yue](Thúy hồ hoa viên) andPictorial Garden[zh](Bích đào hoa viên).

Other features

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Several educational facilities are located in Shek Mun includingInternational Christian Schooland theHong Kong Baptist University Affiliated School Wong Kam Fai Secondary and Primary School.A branch of theHong Kong Baptist University,as well as local public elementary and secondary schools which are run by the university. Shek Mun is also home to some light industry and manufacturing.

Shek Mun will be the location of the Jockey Club Kitchee Centre, which is dedicated to youth football development and was scheduled to open in 2014.[1]

Transport

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Shek Mun is served by theShek Mun stationon theTuen Ma lineof theMTRrapid transit railway system.

Education

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Shek Mun is in Primary One Admission (POA) School Net 91. Within the school net are multiple aided schools (operated independently but funded with government money); no government schools are in this net.[2]

References

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  1. ^"Donations 2011/12 Allocations".Hong Kong Jockey Club. 5 July 2012.
  2. ^"POA School Net 91"(PDF).Education Bureau.Retrieved2022-10-09.