There were dockyards on Ship Street and McGregor Street for building and repairing ships. īy the 1850s, the area was already becoming a Chinese residential area. A focal point of development at that time was Spring Gardens, a red-light zone. With the growth of the British Hong Kong administration, centred in old Victoria (modern Central), Wan Chai attracted those on the fringes of society, such as 'coolie' workers, who came to live on Queen's Road East. Hung Shing Ye, the God of the Sea, was one of the deities worshiped by the locals. Most of them were fishermen, who worked around the area near Hung Shing Temple overlooking the entire harbour. Wan Chai was the first home to the many Chinese villagers living along the undisturbed coastlines in proximity to Hung Shing Temple.

Wan Chai literally means 'a cove' in Cantonese from the shape of its coastal line, however, due to drastic city development and continual land reclamation, the area is no longer a cove. As one of the earliest developed areas in Hong Kong along the Victoria Harbour, Central ('centre ring' in Chinese), Sheung Wan ('upper ring'), Sai Wan ('western ring') and Wan Chai are collectively known as the four rings ( 四環) by the locals. Wan Chai originally began as Ha Wan ( 下環), literally meaning 'a bottom ring' or 'lower circuit'.

5.3 Central and Wan Chai reclamation (from 2007).

2.4 Transfer of sovereignty to China (PRC).

2.2 Second World War and the Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945).

Hongkong Post recommends to address letters using recipient name, flat number, building name, house number, street and village or district. The China Post-designated postal code, 999077, is one of the 9-series codes that China Post uses for international and interregional mail sent from Mainland China. In 2000, city officials once considered a post code system for the city, but the idea was not implemented.

Given Hong Kong’s compact size, postal codes have never been introduced as it would bring little benefit to the already-efficient postal service. As such, postal service remained and remains separate from the rest of the PRC under the one country, two systems principle. Between 18, Hong Kong was a Crown Colony of the United Kingdom, and the colonial government-established postal service, the Hongkong Post, was retained after the 1997 handover. Hong Kong has been a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since 1997.

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