Guangzhou
HISTORY OF THE GUANGZHOU SUBWAY
Mister M Presents
Subway Guangzhou
Guangzhou Metro Museum
The Guangzhou Metro (simplified Chinese: 广州地铁; traditional Chinese: 廣州地鐵; pinyin: Guǎngzhōu Dìtiě; Jyutping: Gwong²zau¹ Dei⁶tit³) ([kwàŋ.ʈʂóʊ.tî.tʰjè] and [kʷɔ̌ːŋ.tsɐ́u.tèi.tʰīːt̚]) is the rapid transit system of the city of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province of China. It is operated by the state-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation and was the fourth metro system to be built in mainland China, after those of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai.
The earliest efforts to build an underground rapid transit system in Guangzhou date back to 1960. In the two decades that followed, the project was brought into the agenda five times but ended up abandoned each time due to financial and technical difficulties. Preparation of what would lead to today's Guangzhou Metro did not start until the 1980s, and it was not until 1993 that construction of the first line, Line 1, officially began. Line 1 opened four years later in 1997 with five stations in operation.
As of 1 May 2022, Guangzhou Metro has 16 lines in operation, namely: Line 1, Line 2, Line 3, Line 4, Line 5, Line 6, Line 7, Line 8, Line 9, Line 13, Line 14, Line 18, Line 21, Line 22, Guangfo Line, and Zhujiang New Town APM reaching both the urban core and surrounding suburbs. Guangfo Line connects Guangzhou and Foshan and is the first metro line between two cities in the country.[13] Daily service hours start at 6:00 am and end at midnight and daily ridership averages over 7 million. Having delivered 3.029 billion rides in 2018, Guangzhou Metro is the third busiest metro system in the world and the 3rd largest in terms of length, after the metro systems of Beijing and Shanghai. Guangzhou Metro operates 302 stations and 621.05 km (385.9 mi) of lines.
Extensive development of the metro network has been planned for the next decade, with construction started on Line 10, , 11, and Line 12, and extensions of Line 3, Line 5, Line 8, Line 13, and Line 14, 18, , Line 22 7 into Shunde District of Foshan.
TIMLINE HISTORY
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Guangzhou Metro Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Guangzhou Metro”) is a large state-owned enterprise wholly owned by the Guangzhou Municipal Government, responsible for the engineering construction, operation and management of the Guangzhou rapid transit system, and the development and operation of auxiliary resources. Since its foundation, with the aim of serving society and the benefit of the people, the company has fully complied with the city government's requirements of "cleanliness, order, safety and order" and made every effort to "construct, operate and manage" the subway, creating good social, economic and environmental benefits.
METRO
The Chinese city of Guangzhou (formerly known as Canton) is the capital of the Guangdong Province and has some 15 million inhabitants (+ 8 million in each neighbouring Foshan and Dongguan). It is situated in the south of the country near Hong Kong. Construction of a subway network was approved in 1989 and construction started in 1993.
