Our Hong Kong Foundation (OHKF) has released their most significant research report since their inception three and a half years ago. They propose to construct an island in the waters between Hong Kong Island and Lantau that will become the base of a smart and liveable metropolis that can accommodate up to about a million people. The proposed island will have a land area of 2,200 hectares, equivalent to half the size of Kowloon. In order to strike a balance between environmental protection / ecological conservation and economic development, OHKF partnered with internationally-renowned management consultant, McKinsey & Company; engineering consultant, Arup; environmental consultant, Environmental Resources Management (ERM); and traffic management consultant, OZZO Technology (HK) Ltd, to jointly conduct preliminary studies on multiple aspects including water depth,  hydrodynamics, marine traffic and operations, engineering work, costs, various land restrictions, and submarine utilities.

As seen in the past experiences of developing the new towns of Sha Tin, Tuen Mun, Tseung Kwan O and Tung Chung, Hong Kong with its natural hilly terrain has tackled the shortage of land through reclamation. However, Hong Kong has lagged behind Singapore, Macau, Shenzhen and Saemangeum in South Korea in terms of large-scale reclamation in the past decade - a period when Hong Kong simply halted land creation despite growing social and economic needs. OHKF’s proposal builds on the Government’s strategic plan of the East Lantau Metropolis mentioned in “Hong Kong 2030+”, and suggests an even bolder, more forward-looking and imaginative, and considerably bigger undertaking of reclamation to create an "Enhanced East Lantau Metropolis”.