Puqian

Puqian
Puqian; 铺前镇
	Town
Chinese transcription(s)
	The main road
	Puqian Location in Hainan
	Coordinates: 20°1′44″N110°34′37″E / 20.02889°N 110.57694°E
Country	China
Province	Hainan
Time zone	UTC+8 (China Standard Time)

Last updated May 03, 2019

Puqian (Chinese :铺前镇) is a port town on the eastern shore of Dongzhai Harbor in Wenchang, Hainan province, China.^[1]^[2]

Chinese is a group of related, but in many cases not mutually intelligible, language varieties, forming the Sinitic branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family. Chinese is spoken by the ethnic Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China. About 1.2 billion people speak some form of Chinese as their first language.

Dongzhai Harbor (东寨港) is located in the northeast of Hainan Province, China. This water body is bordered by Haikou's Meilan District at the west and Wenchang at the east.

Wenchang is a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan province, China. Although called a "city", Wenchang refers to a large land area in Hainan - an area which was once a county. The urban center and the seat of government of Wenchang is officially known as "Wencheng Town" (文城镇), which is also colloquially referred to as Wenchang City.

Old street

A road running from the port at the west to the southernmost point of the main road is lined with tong lau buildings similar in style to those of Haikou's Bo'ai Road area and those on Wennan Old Street in Wencheng Town, Wenchang. While the Bo'ai Road area buildings are in the process of being restored, and Wennan Old Street buildings have been completely restored, the buildings on Puqian's old street are dilapidated, some of which have been condemned or structurally collapsed inside.

The term tong lau or qi lou is used to describe tenement buildings built in late 19th century to the 1960s in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Southern China and South East Asia. Designed for both residential and commercial uses, they are similar in style and function to the shophouses with five foot way of Southeast Asia. Over the years, tong lau construction has seen influences of Edwardian style architecture and later the Bauhaus movement.

The Bo'ai Road area is a historical neighbourhood in Haikou City, Hainan, China. It is located on the south side of the Haidian River, at the northern part of mainland Haikou. The main hub of the neighbourhood is the north-south Bo'ai Road itself, a commercial road with shops selling such items as fabrics, wholesale toys, and pets, in particular freshwater fish.

Access

Prior to 2019, access from Haikou was by road around Dongzhai Harbor, or by ferry boat from a small peninsula within the harbor. From 2019 onward, the Puqian Bridge, which crosses the mouth of the harbor provides more direct access to Haikou. Puqian still has ferry service to the nearby Beigang Island.

Beigang Island, literally North Port Island, is a small island located in the mouth of Dongzhai Harbor, Hainan, China. There are three villages, fish farms, and some mangroves on the island. Beigang Island is under the jurisdiction of Meilan District.

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Hainan eastern ring high-speed railway railway line

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The Guangdong–Hainan railway is a railway that operates from Haikou railway station in Hainan, to the South Port a few hundred metres northwest at the coast, across the Qiongzhou Strait by ferry to Zhanjiang at the tip of the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong, and then north into Guangdong.

Haiwen Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge located east of Haikou City, Hainan, China. It crosses the mouth of Dongzhai Harbor and was built to provide quicker access between Haikou and Wenchang, a large, administrative division of Hainan province. The bridge reduced travel time from Haikou to Wenchang City from 90 minutes down to around 20 minutes.

East Lake Triangle Pool, commonly known as East Lake, is a set of two small lakes in the East Lake area of Haikou, Hainan, China. It is located at the south-west corner of the Bo'ai Road area and at the north side of People's Park.

References

↑ 自动抓稿. "文昌市铺前镇林梧村重建进展顺利 15号前完工不会变". eastday.com. Retrieved 27 June 2015.
↑ "From Hainan to Penang 下南洋：口述". hainan.com.my. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

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[1] 自动抓稿. "文昌市铺前镇林梧村重建进展顺利 15号前完工不会变". eastday.com. Retrieved 27 June 2015.

[2] "From Hainan to Penang 下南洋：口述". hainan.com.my. Retrieved 27 June 2015.