The Central Military Dock, located next to the former Prince of Wales Building/Central Barracks/PLA Garrison Building, where the Headquarters of the Hong Kong Garrison is located, is one of the five new facilities identified in the 1994 Sino-British Memorandum on the Transfer of Military Land in Hong Kong (the original port pond was occupied due to the Reclamation Project in Wan Chai)
Compared with the military facilities handed over in 1997, such as the Shipyard Military Port (Naval Barracks Figure 6), the Gunhuishan Barracks Hospital (Armored Battalion and Hospital Figure 5), the Shek Gang Barracks Military Warehouse (Air Force and Air Defense Force Barracks Figure 4), and the Chek Lap Kok Airport Military Transport Office Figure 7, which were handed over in 1997, the Central District Wharf has not completed the handover until today.
There are two reasons: because the wan chai reclamation project in central district at that time has not been able to determine the final scale, it is only agreed to restore the 150-meter pier there, but the specific location is yet to be determined, in fact, the final plan is determined in 1998 after the return. It was not until 2013 that construction was completed at the Central Pier.
But in 2011, The public opinion in Hong Kong began to target the military docks in Central: thinking that a few kilometers opposite is the Shipyard Military Port, there is no need to open a separate military dock in the most prime area of Hong Kong, which will destroy the landscape belt of the Central District, affect shipping, and the presence of guard troops will cause panic...
However, behind these superficial excuses, there are many forces that are pushing hong Kong to become a center of power that breaks away from the central control, or even becomes a power center that opposes the central control and then infiltrates and subverts the political system of the mainland——— and the 2019 Hong Kong turmoil is a direct consequence of this force's incitement.
As a result, the Central Pier, like the 21 National Security Law, has become a highly sensitive project that cannot be promoted. During this period, public opinion and judicial circles in Hong Kong united to hype up this issue and add fuel to the opposition forces (lightly indulging opposition figures to break into the Central barracks, freezing the military dock planning, etc.).
In fact, part of the reason for opposing the military land in the Central District is indeed worth exploring, but when the Central Wharf was originally only a military land deliberately reserved as a symbol of sovereignty, and became a target for the reactionaries to maliciously hype and attack, the central government naturally did not agree - Grandpa can indeed not want the Central Wharf, but Grandpa cannot be forced by these anti-bone boys to abandon the Central Wharf.
That is to say, the Central Military Terminal is no longer a simple technical question of whether the terminal is reasonable, but a question of dignity whether the will can land in Hong Kong, especially in the context of the strong smear and resistance of the Hong Kong opposition.
The National Security Law and the Central Military Dock are toughly landed in this context, yes, there are still many voices of opposition in Hong Kong, but Grandpa has clearly conveyed the signal to these voices: Disobedience? Hold on!
Therefore, the Hong Kong SAR Government and the Hong Kong Garrison held a very high-profile ceremony for the formal handover of the Central District Military Wharf to the Hong Kong Garrison, in fact, in order to prove one point with this narrow military wharf that is indeed a little uncoordinated with the coastline environment of the Central District of Hong Kong: Hong Kong can only be Grandpa's Hong Kong, and it must also be Grandpa's Hong Kong.
No, any military land has its value, especially in such an important place as Central, and parking a warship at random is the best deterrent to those parliamentary jumping clowns.
The Central Pier was originally only a military land deliberately reserved as a symbol of sovereignty, and when it became a target for the reactionaries to maliciously hype and attack, the above naturally did not agree——— Grandpa can indeed not want the Central Pier, but Grandpa cannot be forced by these anti-bone boys to abandon the Central Pier.
