新益禁閉中心

1989 to 1990

Closed Camp

Planned for 12,000 Refugees 

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San Yick is a 12-storey industrial building on San Yick Lane in the Tuen Mun Industrial area. It was built in the late 1970s/early 1980s. San Yick was not the only industrial buildings in Tuen Mun that were used as a camp. However, the conditions in San Yick received much more scrutiny because it was a closed camp, and asylum seekers were detained for months. The asylum seekers were kept on the third to the tenth floor of the building. Reports stated that 500 to 700 people lived stacked in three-tiers bunk beds on each floor. There was only one toilet, two showers, and one large sink on each floor. In late 1990, the camp was closed when Pillar Point was completed. The building was turned into a storage building for the Government Records Service (GRS) office in 1992. The government records were later moved to the GRS building in Kwun Tung in 1997, and part of the San Yick building can now be rented for filming. The building is also renamed as Government Storage Building. The area remains largely industrial.