Taitou (), formerly (), is a newly built village in Gaocun township,

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Location

Located just two kilometres from the Gaocun exit of the

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, Taitou offers excellent transportation links to

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and

. Taitou is a vibrant community of relocated farmers surrounded by agricultural land and thousands of vacant new buildings. Many of the empty buildings in the surrounding area were constructed during a speculative real estate bubble in the early 2010s. While occupancy rates in Taitou are very high, occupancy rates of housing and shopping malls in the surrounding area are still extremely low. The surrounding area could be described as a Chinese ghost city. In late 2018, house prices dropped from 15,384 Chinese yuan per square metre to 11,771 Chinese yuan per square metre in just two months.

Commercial activity

Within Taitou residential compound

* Spa, building 2 *Skincare products, building 7 *Printing and photocopying, building 10 * Sauna, spa and massage parlour, building 13 * Hairdresser, building 17

In Taitou building 21 (commercial space)

* Medical clinic (basic supplies and limited opening hours) *

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* Broadband service centre

Outside Taitou North Gate

* Family Destiny Restaurant (known colloquially by the expatriate community as the "Dirty Dragon") * Beef hotpot restaurant * Real estate agent * Lanzhou Lamian restaurant (

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) * Massage parlour * Two mobile

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vendors (mornings only) * Electric rickshaws waiting for passengers For safety reasons, no cars are permitted to enter this gate. Pedestrians, bicycles (including electric bikes) and electric rickshaws are allowed.

Outside Taitou West Gate

* Guard sentry * Intercity bus stop

Around Taitou

* Crematorium * Work yard with agricultural equipment and farm animals *Road corn

Widsom Plaza

* Face-to-Face Noodle Bar * Beijing Institute of Big Data Research * Apple'tree (restaurant and yoga studio) * GreenGo electric car rental service

Online retailers

Most couriers do not ship to Taitou due to its remote location. Only

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JD.com JD.com, Inc., also known as Jingdong (), internationally known as Joybuy and formerly called 360buy,

and

deliver mail to addresses in Taitou. Other couriers usually deposit Taitou-addressed mail at Hexiwu (11 km away), Gaocun (3 km away) or Haileybury International School (1.25 km away) and notify the intended recipient of the item's location by SMS. JD.com has a near monopoly for online groceries because it is the only online grocery company willing to ship to Taitou. JD.com's grocery products (which include cabbages, eggs, electronic items and frozen fish) are available for same-day or next-day delivery to Taitou.

Map

Air quality

The air quality as measured by the air quality index (AQI) in nearby

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varies from excellent to severely polluted. In summer months, the AQI is usually around 100, while in winter months, AQI of 300+ is common. In May 2017, the AQI of Langfang and other cities in the

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area exceeded an extremely hazardous 1000 points. Langfang air quality from 2014-2018

The lack of an extremely polluted winter in 2017/18 is owed to policies from the central Chinese government that placed severe restrictions on heavily-polluting manufacturing plants and coal furnaces used for heating.

Renovation process of 2016-17

Renovation at Taitou residential compound 3

Shortly after construction of the Taitou residential compound was completed, and after residents had moved in, major renovation works were carried out on the exterior walls of all 21 buildings at Taitou. The process included: # Chipping away the existing

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# Removing the old

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insulation material from the external walls # Installing new, upgraded Rockwool insulation material to the external walls # Painting the exterior walls white # Painting the exterior walls black # Covering every face of every building with masking tape in a brickwork pattern # Painting the buildings beige then peeling off the masking tape to reveal a brickwork pattern The exterior wall renovation process took nearly 12 months to complete, during which, the compound was littered with dust, rubble and debris. After the exterior wall insulation was finished, workers planted hundreds of trees and bushes around the residential compound.

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used some of the Taitou debris as material for its elective handicraft activity. Planting trees 2

References

{{Authority control Geography of Tianjin Communities of China