---
title: "Hong Kong Is Planning a $79 Billion Artificial Island"
description: "## Artificial Island"
date: "2019-03-20"
modified: "2019-03-20"
authors:
  - name: "Jon Christian"
    job_title: "Executive Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/jonc"
url: "https://futurism.com/hong-kong-artificial-island"
categories:
  - "Future Society"
tags:
  - "artificial islands"
  - "development"
  - "hong kong"
  - "housing"
---

# Hong Kong Is Planning a $79 Billion Artificial Island

![Faced with a critical land shortage, the city of Hong Kong is planning to build one of the most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/hong-kong-artificial-island.png>)
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## Artificial Island

Faced with a critical land shortage, the city of Hong Kong is planning to build one of the most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world, an extraordinary development project that would change the face of modern development.

The Lantau Tomorrow Vision project, which would cost $79 billion, would give the city an [additional 1,000 hectares of land](<https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/mar/20/hong-kong-to-build-one-of-worlds-largest-artificial-islands>) to build 260,000 new residential properties — but the mammoth undertaking is generating stiff internal resistance.

## Riskiest Infrastructure

According to *CNN,* a group called Save Lantau is [pressuring the government](<https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/hong-kong-lantau-artificial-island-intl/index.html>) to reconsider the artificial island, citing a price tag that would reportedly wipe out half the city's financial reserves.

"(This) will be the most expensive, complex and riskiest infrastructure project in Hong Kong's history," the group said in a statement.

**READ MORE:** [Hong Kong reveals plan to build one of the world's largest artificial islands](<https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/20/asia/hong-kong-lantau-artificial-island-intl/index.html>) \[*CNN*\]

**More on artificial islands:** [Denmark Is Building Nine Gigantic Artificial Islands](<https://futurism.com/denmark-building-nine-gigantic-artificial-islands>)

## Author
I'm responsible for editing, assigning, and scouting at Futurism, as well as occasionally writing for the site. That work involves keeping an eye on a wide range of narratives and issues, but over the past few years I've become increasingly interested in how AI is shaping the future of media, the web, and information itself. My day-to-day often involves collaborating on reporting and commentary projects bylined by my colleagues, but I try to find time to do my own reporting as well; stories I've broken for Futurism have been cited by publications including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Yorker, Wired, Ars Technica, New York Magazine, the Columbia Journalism Review, Bloomberg, and more. I grew up in Southern Vermont and attended Vanderbilt University. Prior to Futurism, I contributed to outlets including the Boston Globe, Vice, Wired, Slate, the Atlantic, the Outline, Ars Technica and more, and did stints in farming and food service. I currently live in Brooklyn, New York, and in my free time I enjoy pinball, word games, cycling, running, and music production.

### Author social links  
[Bluesky](<https://bsky.app/profile/jonchristian.net>)