Venue: Hong Kong City Hall
Address: 香港中環愛丁堡廣場5號
Town: Government Hill, CN

Hong Kong City Hall (HKCH, Chinese: 香港大會堂) is a building located at Edinburgh Place, Central, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. In the 19th century, the British founded the City of Victoria in the present-day Central after the establishment of the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. The Crown Colony (including the City of Victoria) was governed by a Governor and Urban Council, there was no mayor or city council, therefore, the City Hall does not hold the offices of a city government, unlike most city halls around the world. Instead, it is a complex providing municipal services, including performing venues and libraries. The City Hall is managed by the Government's Leisure and Cultural Services Department. The Urban Council (UrbCo) managed the City Hall (through the Urban Services Department) and held its meetings there prior to its dissolution in December 1999. Prior to its dissolution the UrbCo served as the municipal council for Hong Kong Island and Kowloon (including New Kowloon). The UrbCo had its meeting chamber in the Low Block of the City Hall. Hong Kong's first City Hall was designed by the French architect Achille-Antoine Hermitte and was opened by Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh in a ceremony on 28 June 1869, it occupied the current sites of the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building (partly) and the Bank of China Building until its demolition in 1933. The current site of the HSBC Hong Kong headquarters building was occupied in part by the old City Hall, and in part by the first and second generations of the HSBC building. The second and current City Hall complex was built in the late 1950s following a public campaign led by the Sino-British Club for the re-establishment of a civic centre in Hong Kong. It was built on a 10,000 square metres (110,000 sq ft) plot of land on the newly reclaimed seafront, about 200 metres (660 ft) from the first generation building. The foundation stone laying ceremony took place on 25 February 1960 with Sir Robert Brown Black, then Governor