Chapter 1 - Introduction and Controlling Officer’s Profile of Key Responsibilities

• provide quality leisure and cultural services that are commensurate with Hong Kong’s development as a world-class city and events capital.

• enrich life by providing quality leisure and cultural services for all;

• promote professionalism and excellence in leisure pursuits and cultural services;

• promote synergy with sports, cultural and community organisations in enhancing the development of arts and sports in the territory;

• preserve cultural heritage;

• beautify the environment through tree planting;

• achieve a high level of customer satisfaction; and

• build a highly motivated, committed and satisfying workforce.

• Customer focus
  

  We continue to respond to customer needs and pledge to provide services in a courteous and user-friendly manner.

• Quality
  

  We pledge to deliver high-quality services in a cost-effective manner.

• Creativity
  

  We continue to encourage diversity and to value original ideas.

• Professionalism
  

  We uphold the highest standards of professionalism and ethics while maintaining a high level of performance.

• Result oriented
  

  Our focus at all times is to achieve the best results possible.

• Cost-effective
  

  We are committed to reaching our goals in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

• Continuous improvement
  

  We seek to continually improve our services and to respond proactively in meeting the changing needs of the community.

Overall View of Our Operation

We develop and manage recreation and sports facilities and organise a wide range of leisure activities   to   promote   recreation  and   sports  at   levels   throughout  the   community.    As  at 
31 December 2022, the number of major recreational and sports facilities under our management was –

We promote greening of Hong Kong through planting of trees, shrubs and other plants in public parks and amenities areas, and through organising a wide range of community greening activities. In 2022, we maintained a total of about 1 287.7 hectares of amenities area and planted about 2.65 million trees, shrubs and annuals.

We preserve heritage and provide museum services with a view to promoting appreciation of arts, science, history, heritage and culture. In 2022, we managed 15 museums and two visual art centres. We organised a total of 75 in-house/off-site exhibitions and 6 960 in-house/outreach programmes covering the themes of arts, science, history and heritage. While physical programmes were affected by the COVID-19 epidemic, a total of 252 online programmes/sessions were organised with 208 850 viewers in 2022.

We promote performing and cinematic arts through the provision of cultural facilities and presentation of programmes. In 2022, we managed 14 performance venues and two stadia, and organised about 3 300 cultural presentations including music, dance, Cantonese and western opera, drama, theatre, multimedia performing arts and film programmes and activities.

We provide, manage and develop library services to meet community needs for knowledge, life-long learning, information, research and recreation; to offer library extension activities to all ages; and to promote reading and literary arts. As at 31 December 2022, we managed 82 public libraries and a rich library collection comprising 13.45 million books and 1.73 million non-print materials.