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Covering an area of 1,074 km2, Hong Kong (HK) has a population of 5.919 million, of which 97% are Chinese, mostly Cantonese. Foreign residents take up the remaining 3%. Hong Kong has a warm and humid tropical/ subtropical monsoon climate with much rainfall. The major languages are Cantonese and English, and the major currency is Hong Kong dollar. The leading religions include Buddhism, Islamism and Christianity.
Hong Kong, the World Dynamic Capital, is a real “Pearl of the Orient” embrancing economy, finance, trade, shopping, entertainment, playing and sightseeing in one. As China’s Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong boasts a great development opportunity and healthy and relaxed trading environment. As a renowned international trade harbor, it gets latest news daily and absorbs the newest international fashion.
Hong Kong combines rich sense of modern life with beautiful natural environment. Representative sight-seeing areas include the luxurious architectures at the top of Tai Ping Hill, Repulse Bay and Kowloon Tong, the Wong Tai Sin Temple at Kowlong Tong, the representative skyscrapers around Victoria Harbor and in neighboring Central, Admiralty and city centers like Wan Chai, the Repulse Bay, Causeway Bay, Tsing Ma Bridge, Tsim Sha Tsui, Mong Kok, Yau Ma Tei, and Kowloon Bay.
Hong Kong is a shopping paradise, with its main shopping areas in Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, and local-flavor-saturated Sheung Wan. Almost every shopping street has a unique theme of its own, like garment street, AV appliance street, gold store street, and so on.
Hong Kong’s movies, nightclubs, bars, traditional operas and horse racings consist of Hong Kong’s banquet of entertainment life. Tsim Sha Tsui, the nigh life paradise, the bars and wine houses along Nathan Road and Hong Kong Horseracing Museum in Hong Kong Island are all worth visiting.
The must-sees in Hong Kong also include representative places such as Po Lin Monastery, Ocean Park, Disney Land, Saigon and Aberdeen.
CUP has established the acceptance of CUP card in Hong Kong since January, 2004. CUP’s Hong Kong customer service hotline is 800-967-222. Currently, 27,988 POS terminals with CUP logos and 2,430 ATMs accept CUP card, basically covering all major tourist areas and shopping areas in Hong Kong. Some shops or ATMs may not have CUP logo on them, but you may ask whether CUP card is accepted. CUP card cannot perform bank counter transferring and counter cash withdrawing in Hong Kong and Macau, nor cash withdrawal through POS terminals.
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