Shunde College railway station (Chinese :顺德学院站), or New City Area Station (Chinese :新城区站), Shunde University Station (Chinese :顺德大学站), [1] is an elevated station of Guangzhou-Zhuhai Intercity Mass Rapid Transit. [2]
Simplified Chinese characters are standardized Chinese characters prescribed in the Table of General Standard Chinese Characters for use in mainland China. Along with traditional Chinese characters, they are one of the two standard character sets of the contemporary Chinese written language. The government of the People's Republic of China in mainland China has promoted them for use in printing since the 1950s and 1960s to encourage literacy. They are officially used in the People's Republic of China and Singapore.
An elevated railway is a rapid transit railway with the tracks above street level on a viaduct or other elevated structure. The railway may be broad gauge, standard gauge, narrow gauge, light rail, monorail, or a suspension railway. Elevated railways are usually used in urban areas where there would otherwise be a large number of level crossings. Most of the time, the tracks of elevated railways that run on steel viaducts can be seen from street level.
The station is located at Fengshapian (Chinese :逢沙片), Daliang Street New City Area, Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong, China, near Shunde Polytechnic (Chinese :顺德技术学院), i.e. Shunde University (Chinese :顺德大学). It is at the east of Bigui Lu (Chinese :碧桂路), the west of Desheng Lu (Chinese :德胜路) and in the middle of Guangzhou-Zhuhai Expressway West Line (Chinese :广珠西线高速公路) and Nanguo Donglu (Chinese :南国东路), near Lijiangsha Channel (Chinese :李家沙水道) and Guipan Sea (Chinese :桂畔海). The line started operation on 7 January, 2011, [3] but the opening date for the station was two years later, on February 1, 2013. [4]
Shunde District, also known as Shuntak, is a district of the city of Foshan, Guangdong province, located in the Pearl River Delta. Once a traditional agricultural county, it has become one of the most affluent counties in Guangdong and mainland China. Since 2009, it is administrated independently of Foshan city, answerable directly to the Guangdong provincial government.
Foshan, formerly romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers 3,848.49 km2 (1,485.91 sq mi) and has an urban population around 7.2 million in 2012. It forms part of the western side of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, which includes Guangzhou to the east and northeast and Shenzhen to the southeast.
Guangdong is a province in South China, on the South China Sea coast. Guangdong surpassed Henan and Shandong to become the most populous province in China in January 2005, registering 79.1 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year; the total population was 104,303,132 in the 2010 census, accounting for 7.79 percent of Mainland China's population. This also makes it the most populous first-level administrative subdivision of any country outside of South Asia, as its population is surpassed only by those of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the Indian states of Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. The provincial capital Guangzhou and economic hub Shenzhen are among the most populous and important cities in China. The population increase since the census has been modest, the province registering 108,500,000 people in 2015.
