According to the China Daily, it was $7.9 million.
The total damage to government buildings from pogroms committed by radical demonstrators during last year’s riots in Hong Kong was HK$61 million ($7.9 million). The China Daily reported on Monday, citing data presented in a special report by local authorities.
The document notes that the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning has had to renovate a total of four dozen facilities, including police stations. The Legislative Council complex suffered the most damage, which was stormed and vandalized by hundreds of masked radicals on 1 July 2019. The repair of the building, located in the Admiralty district in the city centre, cost almost $2 million.
Another $1.2 million had to be spent to renovate government offices in the Cheng Sha Wan district on the mainland. The rioters also bullied, threw Molotov cocktails and paint at a number of other facilities in different parts of the metropolitan area.