I saw numbers of comment in my typhoon post who comment on the Li's Field. Which is a very local joke among HongKongese. But I think most of the people from other country don't know what it means. And let me do some explaination for you guys.
The "Li" in Li's Field refers to local business tycoon Li Ka Shing. I think we could even say that he own Hong Kong in economy.
The basis of Li's Field rests on the way Hong Kong's government is organized. The city's Commerce and Economic Development Bureau oversees the Hong Kong Observatory,[1]and that has led to speculations the Observatory bases its issuance of tropical cyclone warning signals on economic reasoning, instead of scientific reasoning.
One example is in 2006, Typhoon Prapiroon brought 200km/h wind to Hong Kong, overturned containers, uprooted trees, and caused many flight delays at the airport, but the Observatory did not issue Signal Number 8, remaining at the lower level Signal Number 3.
And HongKongese make joke on that the government is ordered by Mr. Li Ka Shing not to issue it to avoid the people stop working and make economic lost.
Internet user even photoshoped a lot of picture to feature such joke. Here come some example:
One more in depth meaning for Li's Field is HongKongese actually ridicule themselves they have to keep working and working until they die no matter what disaster happened.