1.1 | The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is responsible for the territory-wide provision of recreational, sports and cultural facilities and services. |
1.2 | Our vision is to –
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1.3 | Our mission is to –
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1.4 | We achieve our mission by embracing the following core values –
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Overall View of Our Operation |
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1.5 | Organisation Chart of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department |
1.6 | The major responsibilities of the Department are set out in the ensuing paragraphs. |
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We develop and manage recreation and sports facilities and organise a wide range of leisure activities to promote recreation and sports at levels throughout the community. As at |
No. of major recreational and sports facilities |
Sports centres | 105 |
Sports grounds | 25 |
Beaches | 42 |
Swimming pools | 45 |
Parks | 1 685 |
Children’s playgrounds* | 675 |
* | The figure on children’s playgrounds refers to “the number of venues provided with children’s playground” and a venue with more than one children’s play areas will only be counted once. |
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We promote greening of Hong Kong through planting of trees, shrubs and other plants in public parks and amenities areas, and through organising a wide range of community greening activities. In 2022, we maintained a total of about 1 287.7 hectares of amenities area and planted about 2.65 million trees, shrubs and annuals. |
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We preserve heritage and provide museum services with a view to promoting appreciation of arts, science, history, heritage and culture. In 2022, we managed 15 museums and two visual art centres. We organised a total of 75 in-house/off-site exhibitions and 6 960 in-house/outreach programmes covering the themes of arts, science, history and heritage. While physical programmes were affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, a total of 252 online programmes/sessions were organised with 208 850 viewers in 2022. |
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We promote performing and cinematic arts through the provision of cultural facilities and presentation of programmes. In 2022, we managed 14 performance venues and two stadia, and organised about 3 300 cultural presentations including music, dance, Cantonese and western opera, drama, theatre, multimedia performing arts and film programmes and activities. |
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We provide, manage and develop library services to meet community needs for knowledge, life-long learning, information, research and recreation; to offer library extension activities to all ages; and to promote reading and literary arts. As at 31 December 2022, we managed 82 public libraries and a rich library collection comprising 13.45 million books and 1.73 million non-print materials. |