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The Jubilee Battery was one of the battlefields in the defence of Hong Kong in December 1941. During the occupation, the Japanese used a magazine as a cell for POWs. After the war, the site was used as a camp for KMT soldiers, then squatters, cottage industries, and by the Special Branch of the Hong Kong Police.
A research team led by Professor Lawrence Lai at the Department of Real Estate and Construction of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) considers the site of high conservation value and should be graded and comprehensively conserved as a heritage site. Jubilee Battery has three well preserved gun emplacements. and is far bigger than Chung Hom Kok Battery (which only has a single gun emplacement left). Further conservation planning can also take advantage of the fact that part of the battery has already been protected as part of the Chicago University campus, which can be used as an anchor for such planning.
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2021-03-07 03:35:22 GMT2021-03-07 11:35:22(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Xinhua writers Wu Junyi, Lu Min
HONG KONG, March 7 (Xinhua) How will you hoist the steel bridge? A lot of people have asked me in the past weeks, said Kan Jun, director of China Road and Bridge Corp., contractor of a cross-bay bridge project in Hong Kong.
A prefabricated double-arch steel bridge for the Cross Bay Link, Tseung Kwan O, was erected by the project team on the bridge piers on Feb. 26 in Hong Kong.
It s never been easy to hoist a prefabricated bridge which weighs over 10,000 tons, particularly, above sea, however, the Chinese experts came up with a better solution to install the bridge.
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