Shun Tak Centre (Chinese: 信德中心, Cantonese: seon3 dak1 zung? sam1, Pinyin: Xìn Dé Zhōngxīn) is a commercial and transport complex on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island in Sheung Wan, Hong Kong. It comprises a 4-storey podium containing a shopping centre and car park, two 38-storey office towers, and the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal.
Shun Tak Centre is the headquarters of Shun Tak Group, the principal Hong Kong operating company of Dr. Stanley Ho, the Macau casino tycoon.
It also has the head office of the China Merchants Group, a state-owned corporation of the People's Republic of China, in the China Merchants Tower (招商局大廈, Pinyin: Zhāoshāng Jú Dàshà) of the Shun Tak Centre complex.
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