[Explanation] Affected by the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Hong Kong Ocean Park will be closed for 239 days in 2020. As of June 2020, Ocean Park’s revenue has fallen 59% year-on-year to 717 million Hong Kong dollars. For this, the SAR government has allocated 3 billion Hong Kong dollar subsidies helped Ocean Park stop losses.
On January 18, the Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development of Hong Kong, Yau Tenghua, explained the proposed future route of Ocean Park at a press conference.
[Concurrent] Yau Tenghua, Director of Hong Kong Commerce and Economic Development Bureau
First, in the "New Look and New Experience" plan, the focus is on the hope that some areas of the Ocean Park can be opened to all citizens for free. The purpose of this change is to allow everyone to do leisure, recreation, food, and entertainment in the park at will. Retail and other activities are convenient for everyone to enjoy. At present, Admiralty has direct subway access to Ocean Park. (I believe) it can change the need for everyone to buy admission tickets or go once or half a year, so that everyone can enjoy it more often.
[Explanation] Qiu Tenghua said that the operation mode of some facilities in Ocean Park will also be operated by other operators from the original operation mode.
[Concurrent] Yau Tenghua, Director of Hong Kong Commerce and Economic Development Bureau
The second direction is the change of operation. Ocean Park hopes to outsource some of the park facilities to other operators or operate under a business cooperation model. The park will also retain some of the core facilities to operate on its own. These include education and upcoming The "water park" put into service, so there is a form of cooperation, and there is also a form of its own. In the end, the cooperation between these two aspects hopes that the operation can achieve the same level of self-financing as before.
[Explanation] The educational and environmental protection significance of Ocean Park has been affirmed by the SAR government for a long time.
In the future, these two aspects will still receive the support of the SAR government.
[Concurrent] Yau Tenghua, Director of Hong Kong Commerce and Economic Development Bureau
The third aspect of the important work is education and conservation. Not only can we not stop, we also need to invest (resources) to do a good job in this regard. In this regard, the government also believes that appropriate support should be given so that (original) education and conservation work will not be wasted. .
Reporter Liang Yuan from Hong Kong
Editor in charge: [Lu Yan]