Lamma Island has 6,000 residents, most of whom live in the area of Rongshuwan. The north of Lamma Island is relatively flat and can be used as cultivated land. However, some people live in Stéphanie Sokolinsk Bay in the south.
Since the economic take-off of Hong Kong in the 1970s, many young Lamma residents have moved out of Hong Kong to make a living. Lamma Island, like other rural areas, left the older generation on the island. 1990 after the Hongkong Electric Company Limited built a power plant in Boluozui, northwest of the island, more foreign engineers moved to Rongshuwan, Lamma Island, where some western-style cafes and restaurants were built, where Chinese and Western cultures met. 1997 after the return of hong kong, some foreigners in lamma island moved away because foreigners needed visas to work in hong kong, but it still did not reduce the westernization of the island.
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Xiang Liu (? -1635), a pirate in China in the Ming Dynasty, was a member of the "Eighteen Branches" maritime armed group.
Born in Lamma Island, Chow Yun Fat is a famous Hong Kong and international TV and film actor.
1May, 95518th, Chow Yun Fat was born in a poor family in the north of Lamma Island. His father is a sailor, fishing and drifting at sea all the year round. Mother grows vegetables and raises chickens and often goes to other people's homes to help. Chow Yun Fat is the third child of this poor family. His parents gave him the scientific name Runfa and the baby name Puppy. In Cantonese, "Jing" means "small" and "Jing Dog" means "puppy".
200 1, 1 1, Chow Yun Fat is wearing a doctor's hat of the City University of Hong Kong. City University of Hong Kong awarded him this honorary degree in recognition of his achievements as an international superstar and his spirit of continuous efforts. This spirit is also the enterprising spirit that makes Hong Kong a Hong Kong. There is still greater glory waiting for Chow Yun Fat: in 2003, Si Qi Publishing House of Hong Kong recorded the legendary story of Chow Yun Fat in the first-grade Chinese textbook of middle school with a length of 12 page, and Chow Yun Fat became the first performing star to be selected into the middle school textbook; In the same year, Chow Yun Fat was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Medal by the Hong Kong SAR Government in recognition of Chow Yun Fat's contribution to Hong Kong society over the years. The Silver Bauhinia Medal is the highest honor awarded to artists by the Hong Kong government so far. Being selected as a middle school textbook and awarded the government medal is an official confirmation, which means that today's Chow Yun Fat is no longer just a movie star in the general sense, but also a model idol with a healthy personality and the spirit of the times.
In the eyes of many Hong Kong people, Chow Yun Fat is the most respected and successful person after Li Ka-shing. John Romer (1920 ─ 1982), a famous foreign amateur reptile and amphibian biologist, discovered the tree frog Leuven in Lamma Island in 1952.