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Supporting the Green Transformation of Sanlitun Road
Taikoo Li Sanlitun contributed to a year-long municipal project to develop a slow traffic system for Sanlitun Road, part of a Chaoyang District-wide campaign to promote walking, cycling and small-wheeled transport to alleviate traffic congestion, reduce carbon emissions, help the public connect with nature along a pleasant, tree-lined road, and build the resilience of the district.
Swire Properties actively responded to the District’s call to support the slow traffic system. We offered suggestions, participated in the planning and design process, invested in some of the engineering and construction, and provided maintenance services. The result is a safer, more walkable, greener and more pleasant street with enhanced connectivity to Taikoo Li Sanlitun’s shops and services and nearby public facilities and amenities.
Our contribution to the project is an example of Creative Transformation in action. By keeping the bigger picture in mind, an urban renewal initiative can effectively contribute to the vibrancy, livelihood, wellbeing and resilience of a place.
HKRI Taikoo Hui Empowers the Shanghai Tourism Festival
HKRI Taikoo Hui co-organised two bazaars in conjunction with the Shanghai Tourism Festival in September 2023, expanding connections and interactions among stakeholders and benefitting the community. Held at the mall’s North Piazza, the “Leyou Cloud Shopping” festival featured local specialties and food from districts of Shanghai and other cities; while the Kashgar Food Market invited 20 Kashgar restaurants and souvenir shops to recreate an authentic Xinjiang cultural experience.
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Winter Camp for Kids at the Sichuan Community Centre
As 2023 began, Swire Properties’ Sichuan Community Centre welcomed 22 student volunteers from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics who organised a five-day winter camp for local students. The camp’s programmes combined theory and practice and introduced the students to fascinating facts about space and drone operations as well as teaching them how to assemble a basic glider.
Since 2019, the community centre has organised more than 240 diverse sessions that have included extracurricular activities for children, employment skill training for women and elderly care – initiatives that have reached more than 15,000 participants.
As the centre receives greater recognition, donations and support from individuals, enterprises and organisations, it has increasingly become a hub that pools resources and matches support in line with people’s needs. To provide an even greater diversity of services in the future, the centre has entered into long-term partnerships with universities, non-profit organisations, foundations, and several schools.
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“Oceans Tomorrow: Our City Our Sea”
Swire Properties celebrated Hong Kong’s unique marine biodiversity in 2023. A collaboration called “Oceans Tomorrow: Our City, Our Sea” by National Geographic and Emerging Islands was an exhibition and mural project that appeared at Citygate Outlets, Pacific Place, Cityplaza and Taikoo Place during the year. Three large murals each depicted a particular Hong Kong ecosystem to illustrate the intersection of biodiversity and human ecology.
“City” was an infographic mural of a Hong Kong’s cityscape. The striking visuals also featured factoids and information about Hong Kong’s seafood consumption, waste management and other sustainability-related topics. “Coast” was a mural of a Hong Kong coastline, illustrating the animals and plants of a diverse coastal ecosystem. “Reef” was an infographic mural of a Hong Kong reef system, featuring selected marine animals and corals found in Hong Kong waters.
Visitors could scan QR codes on the murals to activate an augmented reality (“AR”) application and interact with different animals, plants and other objects featured in the mural, take pictures with them, and access a digital handbook and guide.
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Community Caring Fund 2023
The Swire Properties Community Caring Fund (“CCF”) provides sponsorship to less-well-known Hong Kong-based community organisations nominated by our employees. The objective is to help these organisations plan and implement community-based initiatives and outreach projects.
Since 2013, the CCF has donated over HKD21 million to 180 community-based initiatives and outreach projects.
In 2023, the CCF sponsored 17 initiatives and outreach projects, donating a total of over HKD2 million to projects. The beneficiary projects include:
CCF-sponsored programmers, by focus area
CCF-sponsored programmers, by focus area
The S.K.H. St Christopher’s Home – Kidsmind Project
The S.K.H. St. Christopher’s Home provides residential care to underprivileged children and young people who do not receive adequate family care. In 2023, the CCF funded a project to provide 30 children with special educational needs from low-income families with a one-year programme of assessments, intensive training and professional therapy, to identify and provide support for their individual developmental needs.
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Community Leap
Food Grace is a food recycling centre that recycles and redistributes food to grassroots communities and promotes a more sustainable lifestyle by reducing food waste. The CCF funded a project to collect and redistributed 200 second-hand rice cookers to low-income families that live in subdivided flats, and teach them a variety of recipes which only require a rice cooker and minimise food waste at the same time. The families were also given a food package to help reduce their food expenditures.
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Evangel Children's Home – “High-Spirited Basketball Training”
The CCF funded this programme to organise regular basketball training sessions and competitions for secondary school-age boys living in residential care homes. The aim was to help the boys improve their self-confidence, establish a healthy life and develop a positive outlook on life through sports.
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