The Hong Kong Golf Club has been fighting a proposed move to carve out some of its land for public housing. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - On an autumn afternoon at the Hong Kong Golf Club, hundreds of dogs – pugs, Pomeranians, Shiba Inus – strolled the verdant grounds with their owners in tow, enjoying rare access to the range that charges new members a US$2 million entry fee.
The city’s business leaders may be aligned with Communist Party of China’s leaders, but many are also stubbornly protective of Hong Kong’s capitalist wealth. “If the golf course development plan is thwarted, the public impression of ‘business colluding with government officials’ will only get worse,” one of the newspapers, Ta Kung Pao, said in an editorial after an environmental review in August effectively delayed the housing plan.
“Deng Xiaoping once said that the horses would keep on racing and the dancers would keep on dancing,” Mr Shih said, citing a comment the Chinese leader made ahead of Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 to suggest Hong Kong would not lose its capitalist verve. “If the horses still race and dancers still dance, then I’d add that the golfers should keep on swinging.”
The dispute over the course began in 2018, when Hong Kong’s government solicited public input on where to acquire land for public housing, and a few pro-democracy legislators raised the idea of taking back land from the golf club. The land is owned by the government, which has leased it to the club since 1911.
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