Calendar 2010–11

Part 1 • General Information Part 1 Lands and Buildings With an addition of 2.94 hectares newly granted land in Area 39, the 137-hectare campus is located on a tract of land under lease from the government north of downtown Shatin in the New Territories. It commands a scenic view of Tolo Harbour to the north and Tide Cove to the east. The campus varies in elevation from 4.4 to 140 metres above sea level and has been carved from a rocky promontory into a number of plateaux to provide the sites for buildings of the University and its Colleges, as well as blocks of staff residences. To date, there are over 150 buildings, large or small, have been erected on this once barren hillside. Buildings for central activities are located mainly at the mid-level. The expanse of land in the valley next to the University Station of the Mass Transit Railway (East Rail Line) is the campus of Chung Chi College. At the highest level are United College and New Asia College while Shaw College occupies the northwest tip of the University campus. Around the tree-lined UniversityMall and the University Square clustering the following buildings: the University Administration Building, the University Library, the Tin Ka Ping Building (mainly an extension of the library), the Institute of Chinese Studies and the Art Museum, the Sui-Loong Pao Building (housing offices of the Registry Services, and Admissions and Financial Aid), the Pi Ch’iu Building (housing the Information Technology Services Centre), the Y.C. Liang Hall (a lecture hall complex), the Sir Run Run Shaw Hall (an auditorium and performance hall), the Lady Shaw Building (for the science departments), the Ho Sin-Hang Engineering Building and the William M.W. Mong Engineering Building (for the engineering departments), Academic Building No. 1 (housing the Institute of Mathematical Sciences), the University Science Centre, the Centralized Science Laboratories Building, the Choh-Ming Li Basic Medical Sciences Building, and the Mong Man Wai Building (also for the science and engineering departments). Other buildings around the central campus include the Benjamin Franklin Centre and John Fulton Centre (two amenities buildings with a swimming pool for staff and students) to the south, the Teaching Complex at western campus (for Faculty of Law and teaching facilities), the Li Dak Sum Building, Fung King Hey Building, and Leung Kau Kui Building (housing academic facilities mainly for the arts departments) to the west, the University Health Centre, the Lady Ho Tung Hall (housing the Office of Academic Links and the Office of Academic Links (China)), the Yali Guest House and the Chan Kwan Tung Inter-University Hall (guest house facilities) to the east. By the main entrance on Tai Po Road stands the Security and Transport Building whilst blocks of staff quarters, postgraduate halls and international houses dot the hilly slopes to the north.