According to SCMP , The convention and exhibition sector is divided on whether using the site of the Wan Chai Sports Ground to build exhibition facilities is the best solution to address its capacity shortage.
This story drove me to think about whether the city of Hong Kong, so crowded with everything, values culture and education over sports? What exactly does it need more now?
Let's see this from a data journalist's perspective:
Source: SCMP
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What to do with Wan Chai stadium?
Sports Facilities vs ppl served
This graph on the left shows the relationship between the sports facilities in Hong Kong and how many people they served though the years.
We can see that although the number of facilities doesn't change a lot from 2014 to 2016, but people using it were incresing.
This suggests an incresing need of sports centers.
Source: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/tc/aboutlcsd/ppr/statistics/leisure.html#fac
Culture Centers vs
ppl served
This graph however, reveals the relationship between Hong Kong's culture facilities and how many people they served though the years.
We can see that while the nukber of facilities incresed over last three years, people using then were on the contrary decresing.
This suggests an decline on the need of culture facilities.
Source: http://www.lcsd.gov.hk/tc/aboutlcsd/ppr/statistics/cultural.html#Venues
Geographical Factors
However, one important factor in discussing the need of sports and recreation facilities versus culture facilities is the location of them.
As a family may feel lazy to go to a district that's far from their home to do sports, yet they may be willing to travel far for a certain culture activity they enjoy.
So let's look on how the facilities were located in Hong Kong.
Start from the sports and recreation facilities in Hong Kong. As we can see, the distribution of sports and recreation centres in Hong Kong is more or less even.
Several districts with a raleticely higher population, like Kwun Tong, has more facilities than others.
However, several districts has a relatively lower number of facilities.
The subject of this issue, Wan Chai, is a significant one of them.
However, one important factor in discussing the need of sports and recreation facilities versus culture facilities is the location of them.
As a family may feel lazy to go to a district that's far from their home to do sports, yet they may be willing to travel far for a certain culture activity they enjoy.
So let's look on how the facilities were located in Hong Kong.
Start from the sports and recreation facilities in Hong Kong. As we can see, the distribution of sports and recreation centres in Hong Kong is more or less even.
Several districts with a raleticely higher population, like Kwun Tong, has more facilities than others.
However, several districts has a relatively lower number of facilities.
The subject of this issue, Wan Chai, is a significant one of them.
At the same time, the use rate of all the performing cultural facilities in Hong Kong (the pie chart on the left) shows that the usage of these facilities experienced a fluactuation.
But there's always a blank capacity to be fullfill (those whose use rate were below 80%).
This result shows consistance with the bar chart we discussed above, that the culture facilities in Hong Kong do face a bit decline on its usage.
But there's always a blank capacity to be fullfill (those whose use rate were below 80%).
This result shows consistance with the bar chart we discussed above, that the culture facilities in Hong Kong do face a bit decline on its usage.
To sum up, both sports recreation and cultural usage is important to maintain citizen's healthy life in Hong Kong.
From the data we know that the need of sports seems to be more urgent and bigger than that of culture facilities currently.
However, whether a new spot for cultural events would drive more interest on cultural related events remains to be a question.
From the data we know that the need of sports seems to be more urgent and bigger than that of culture facilities currently.
However, whether a new spot for cultural events would drive more interest on cultural related events remains to be a question.
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