Central Government Offices
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The Central Government Offices (Traditional Chinese: 中區政府合署, also Government Headquarters 政府總部) houses the most major offices of the Hong Kong Government. Located in the Central in Hong Kong. It occupies the lower level of Government Hill.
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[edit] History
Completed in 1957 by the then British colonial government, it replaced a two-storey colonial complex from the 1930s, old Secretariat Building (built 1847) was demolished in 1954).
[edit] Legislative Council
Until 1985, the Legislative Council of Hong Kong met here.
[edit] Government Offices
The building is actually a complex of three wings with a total of 76,000 square feet of offices: Main Wing (with Annex), East Wing and West Wing. The most familiar wing is the Main Wing, housing offices of the Chief Executive and site of most major protest against the Hong Kong Government (another site is the LegCo). In order to keep protesters who have not applied from entering the complex, a serie of fences was erected in 1998 after the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China in 1997.
Plans are under way to replace the current buildings with a new 110,000 square foot office at the Tamar basin and scheduled to be completed by 2016. Its cost is estimated at HKD270-400 million for the new site ($40 million for the current site).
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- Sing Pao Star Daily, October 23, 2005 No 176, p 50-52
