Huaqiao () is a metro station on
Line 11 of the
Shanghai Metro
The Shanghai Metro (; Shanghainese: ''Zaon6he5 Di6thiq7'') is a rapid transit system in Shanghai, operating urban and suburban transit services to 14 of its 16 List of township-level divisions of Shanghai, municipal districts and to the neighb ...
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Line 11 of the
Suzhou Metro
Suzhou Metro, previously called Suzhou Rail Transit, is a rapid transit system serving the city of Suzhou, in Jiangsu Province, China. Line 1 began operation on April 28, 2012. Line 2 opened on December 28, 2013. A further three lines, and an ext ...
. Located at the intersection of Guangming Road and Yanhu Avenue in Huaqiao,
Kunshan
Kunshan is a county-level city in southeastern Jiangsu Province, Jiangsu province with Shanghai bordering its eastern border and Suzhou on its western boundary. It is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Suzhou.
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Suzhou
Suzhou is a major prefecture-level city in southern Jiangsu province, China. As part of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis, it is a major economic center and focal point of trade and commerce.
Founded in 514 BC, Suzhou rapidly grew in size by the ...
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Jiangsu
Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...
, it serves as the current western terminus on the branch line of Shanghai Metro Line 11 & the Eastern terminus of the Suzhou Metro Line 11.
History
Shanghai Metro
The station for Shanghai Metro Line 11 opened on 16 October 2013. It is an elevated station. It is one of three stations in the Shanghai Metro system that is not located in the municipality of
Shanghai
Shanghai, Shanghainese: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China. The city is located on the Chinese shoreline on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the ...
itself, the other two being and , which are adjacent on the line.
From 26 January 2020 to 24 March 2020, and from 14 Feb 2022 to 3 April 2022, services on a segment of Shanghai Metro Line 11 between Huaqiao and
Anting
Anting () is a town in Jiading District, Shanghai, bordering Kunshan, Jiangsu to the west. It has 96,000 inhabitants and, after the July 2009 merger of Huangdu (), an area of . stations were suspended due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
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Suzhou Metro
The station for Suzhou Metro Line 11 opened on 24 June 2023 as an underground station, which makes it an interchange between two rail systems.
Structure
Huaqiao Station of Shanghai Metro is an elevated station with two side platforms, with one concourse that is compmosed of two individual paid zones. Huaqiao Station of Suzhou Metro is an underground station with one island platform.
There are three transfer channels between the two parts: one for the east paid zone of Shanghai Metro Huaqiao concourse, one for the west zone, and another (in the middle) for the unpaid zone. When transferring through these transfer channels except the middle one, no extra security check is needed.
The transfer channels connects Shanghai Metro and Suzhou Metro, which use different pricing systems. Passengers who use specified mobile applications and have enabled "senseless transfer" may transfer without getting out and again getting in the gates. Other passengers, including those using public transportation cards or single journey tickets, should get out and in through the gates of different systems.
References
Railway stations in Jiangsu
Line 11, Shanghai Metro
Railway stations in China opened in 2013
Shanghai Metro stations in Kunshan
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