Reflection

Manufacturing Industry in Hong Kong in June, 1999.

Manufacturing Industry have its long history in Hong Kong.  However, a lot of manufacturers moved their factories towards the countries, where have lower labour cost, for instance, mainland China, in order to maximize their profits. By the way, the people employed in Hong Kong is decreasing in recent decades. Then, is there still any people engaged in this "old industry"? If the answer is "yes", then how many people engaged? And how are they distributing throughout Hong Kong? We will discuss this questions in the following section.

Number of person employed in manufacturing industry

According to the statistics about June 1999, there are over 250,000 people employed in manufacturing industry. Details of the number of employees in the manufacturing industry in Hong Kong are shown in the following table , chart and the map.

Table 1

    From the table and chart, it is depicted that the workers in manufacturing industry were mainly concentrating in 3 districts. They are Kwun Tong, Kwai Tsing and Tusen Wan. There were over 25, 000 persons being employed in manufacturing industry. It can be explained by the history of manufacturing industry in these districts. During the end of 70s and 80s, these 3 districts were developed to be manufacturing industry's centre. This is still the fact nowadays. Therefore, there should be a lot of skilled labour. Besides, the facilities related to this industry, certainly, have been well- developed in these districts. Owing to these favorite criterias, the manufacturing business will still stay in there.