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

 

 

Our Profile

1.1The Leisure and Cultural Services Department (LCSD) is responsible for the territory-wide provision of recreational, sports and cultural facilities and services, supported by the Leisure Services Branch and Cultural Services Branch.
1.2To foster community’s participation in recreation and sports activities, the Leisure Services Branch organises a variety of programmes while managing and developing recreation and sports facilities throughout Hong Kong. It also carries out beautification works by planting and maintaining trees and shrubs in public parks and amenity areas, and organising community greening initiatives to enhance the landscape and environment.
1.3To promote cultural development and appreciation of performing and visual arts in Hong Kong, the Cultural Services Branch manages a wide range of performance facilities to provide cultural and entertainment programmes. It also provides public library services to promote reading and literary arts and delivers professional museum services through various Hong Kong’s public museums.
1.4We are committed to enhancing our environmental management practices in our venues/facilities/activities/programmes/events to achieve environmental protection and sustainable development. In future, we will continue our green efforts to contribute to the achievement of carbon neutrality for Hong Kong before 2025.

Expenditure and Establishment

1.5The revised estimate and actual expenditure in 2023-24 were $11,575.2 million and $11,694.6 million respectively. The estimate for 2024-25 was $12,131.4 million.
1.6Our staff establishment as at 31 December 2024 was 10 319.

Vision, Mission and Values

1.7Our vision is to –

  • provide quality leisure and cultural services that are commensurate with Hong Kong’s development as a world-class city and events capital.
1.8Our mission is to –

  • 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.
1.9We achieve our mission by embracing the following core values –

  • 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

1.10Organisation Chart of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

Organisation Chart of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department

1.11The major responsibilities of the Department are set out in the ensuing paragraphs.

Recreation and Sports

1.12We develop and manage recreation and sports facilities and organise a wide range of leisure activities to promote recreation and sports at all levels throughout the community. As at 31 December 2024, the number of major recreational and sports facilities under our management was –

No. of major recreational and sports facilities

*The figure on children’s playgrounds refers to “the number of venues provided with children’s playground” and a venue with more than one children’s play areas will only be counted once.

Horticulture and Amenities

1.13We 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 2024, we maintained a total of about 1 289.9 hectares of amenities area and planted about 3.03 million trees, shrubs and annuals.

Heritage and Museums

1.14We preserve heritage and provide museum services with a view to promoting appreciation of arts, science, history, heritage and culture. In 2024, we managed 15 museums and two art spaces. We organised a total of 113 in-house/off-site exhibitions and 21 437 in-house/outreach programmes covering the themes of arts, science, history and heritage. 

Heritage and Museums

Performing Arts

1.15We promote performing and cinematic arts through the provision of cultural facilities and presentation of programmes. In 2024, we managed 15 performance venues and two stadia, and organised about 5 700 cultural presentations, including music, dance, Cantonese and western opera, drama, theatre, multimedia performing arts and film programmes and activities.

Performing Arts

Public Libraries

1.16We 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 2024, we managed 83 public libraries and a rich library collection comprising 13.69 million books and 1.67 million non-print materials.

Public Libraries

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