# Fangcun station

Fangcun station (Chinese: 芳村站; Jyutping: fong$^1$cyun$^1$ zaam$^6$; Cantonese Yale: Fōngchyūn Jaahm) is an interchange station between Line 1 and Line 11 of the Guangzhou Metro. Line 1 started operations on 28 June 1997. Line 11 started operations on 28 December 2024. It will be served by Line 22 in future.
It is situated under the junction of Huadi Avenue North (花地大道北) and Fangcun Avenue Middle (芳村大道中) in Fangcun in the Liwan District. The station has six main exits (lettered from A-E) at each of the four corners of the concourse. The station is popular with revellers visiting the popular Bai'etan riverside bar street on Changdi Street approx 10 minutes walk from the station, as well as shoppers going to the large superstore located nearby.

## Transport connections

There are several bus stops nearby including the Fangcun Interchange station on Huadi Dadao at the southern entrance to the Zhujiang Tunnel, which is a major hub for cross-river buses. The Fangcun-Huangsha foot/cycle ferry runs from nearby Changdi Road. There is a staffed bicycle park outside Exit B of the station.

## Features

The station is a key station of intangible cultural heritage on Line 11, featuring the theme of "Cantonese Splendid Jinhua", and there are shop windows in the station hall, focusing on the display of cultural artworks such as Cantonese embroidery and Cantonese carving.

## Station layout

With a total length of 689 meters, the Line 1 station was the longest underground station in Asia when it was completed, including the underground shopping street and the switchback line below.

### Line 1

| G | - | Exits A & B |
| L1 Concourse | 1 Lobby | Ticket Machines, Customer Service, Shops, Police Station, Safety Facilities, Transfer to 11 |
| L2 Platforms | Platform 2 | 1 towards Xilang (Huadiwan) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left ||
| L2 Platforms | Platform 1 | 1 towards Guangzhou East Railway Station (Huangsha) |

### Line 11

| G | - | Exits C-E |
| L1 Concourse | 11 Lobby | Ticket Machines, Customer Service, Shops, Police Station, Safety Facilities, Transfer to 1 |
| L2 | - | Station equipment |
| L3 Platforms | Platform 4 | 11 Inner Circle (Shiweitang) |
| Island platform, doors will open on the left ||
| L3 Platforms | Platform 3 | 11 Outer Circle (Dachongkou) |

## Exits

In 2010, Exit A2 had to be renovated with escalators and the installation of a "flying roof" canopy, so the exit was temporarily closed during the renovation period. In addition, the station used to have Exits C and D at the time of its opening, but now they have been closed due to the construction of Line 22 station and Exit C has been demolished. Exit B2 was also closed due to construction of Line 11 since 9 March 2021 and subsequently demolished. After the Line 11 station opened, three new exits on both sides of Fangcun Avenue were added, which were lettered as C, D and E respectively, of which the new Exit C is located next to Exit A1, and Exit E is newly built at the original place of Exit B2.
| Exit letter | Exit letter | Exit location | Nearby |
| A | A1 | Fangcun Avenue Middle | Fangcun Avenue East, Fangcun Public Bus Stop (Eastbound) |
| A | A2 | Fangcun Avenue North | Huadi Avenue North (Huadiwan) Public Bus Stop (Northbound Stands 1 and 2) |
| B1 | B1 | Fangcun Avenue North | Luju Road, Pearl River Tunnel, Baietan Dawan Art Center (Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangdong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum, Guangdong Literature Museum), Fangcun Tunnel Public Bus Stop (Northbound), Fangcun Public Bus Stop (Westbound Stands 1 and 2) |
| C | C | Fangcun Avenue Middle | Fangcun Avenue East |
| D | D | Fangcun Avenue Middle | Fangcun Avenue East, Fangcun Public Bus Stop (Eastbound) |
| E | E | Fangcun Avenue Middle | Fangcun Avenue East, Fangcun Public Bus Stop (Westbound Stands 1 and 2) |

## Gallery

* Line 1 concourse
* Line 11 concourse
* Line 1 platform
* Line 11 platform 3 (Outer Circle platform)
* Line 11 platform 4 (Inner Circle platform)
* Line 1 platform panorama
* Line 11 platform panorama

## History
### Line 1

In the 1988 network plan, the station was named Fangcun Huadi, which was the halfway station of Line 1 of the first phase of construction at that time, and is consistent with the current location of the station. On 28 December 1993, Line 1 officially began construction. On 28 June 28 1997, 5 stations from Xilang to Huangsha, including this station, were officially opened with the opening of the first section of Line 1.
In 2004, in consideration of the safety of platform passengers and energy conservation, the metro company decided to install platform screen doors and half-height screen doors on all lines of Line 1 in operation, and to carry out the renovation of platform windways and pipelines. In December 2008, the screen doors at this station were officially put into use, and the station is the last station to install screen doors in the underground section of Line 1.

### Incidents

Before the screen doors of this station were put into use, there were incidents of passengers jumping off the rails and attempting to commit suicide by being hit by incoming trains.
On May 8, 2008, a ceiling of about 10 square meters in the concourse suddenly fell off and smashed to the ground, but fortunately there were no casualties.

### Line 11

The current Line 11 station was originally selected in the 1997 "Guangzhou Urban Rapid Rail Traffic Line Network Planning Study (Final Report)" for Route 5 of Scheme B and the "Super Ring" scheme for the 2008 Rail Transit Network Planning. In 2009, when the initial specification plan was made, it was planned to have a station at Fangcun to intersect with Line 1. In 2012, Line 11 was included in the 12th Five-Year Plan for Rail Transportation in Guangzhou and was approved, and Fangcun Station was also established.
In order to cooperate with the construction of the station of Line 11, from 16 March 2019 till the line opening, the second phase of the construction enclosure was implemented on the section from Huadi Avenue North to Mingxin Road on Fangcun Avenue Middle, in which the pipeline will be relocated, the main structure of the station will be constructed in the enclosed area and some bus lines will be rerouted. The construction of the main structure of the station began on 28 April 2019, the foundation pit was fully excavated on 27 May 2020, the main structure was topped out on 15 November 2020. The "three powers" transfer was completed on 30 July 2024.
In addition, Line 11 was originally planned to have a transfer node with Line 19, as well as part of the structure of Line 19 station on the fourth basement level. However, the reservation plan has been cancelled since the reserved line originally for Line 19 of this station was transferred to Line 28, and since then the current station of Line 28 has been changed to the west of the existing station.
On 28 December 2024, Line 11 was opened and put into use, and the station became an interchange station.

## Future development

Line 22 and Line 28 are planned to stop here in the future, making the station a major hub of the Guangzhou Metro.
The Line 22 station will be on the west side of the Huadi Avenue Bridge, west of the existing Line 1 station, and 3 new exits will be built. The stations are connected by a transfer concourse that crosses the bridge underneath, and a transfer node is also reserved at the west end of the Line 11 platform.
Since the interchange with either Shiweitang Station or Fangcun Station was not confirmed in the early planning of Line 22, it was called Bai'etan Station during the planning and construction period, and the station was later determined to be located at the current location. In June 2020, the Guangzhou Metro Group applied to the Geographical Names Committee of the Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau for the names of the stations along the stations of Line 18 and Line 22, and the station was finally unified due to the interchange with Fangcun Station of Line 1, and Fangcun Station was used as the official name of the station of Line 22.
In addition, during the official naming of the station of Line 22, the Liwan District Government proposed to rename the station to "Fangcun Baietan Station", but according to Article 7 of the Rules for Naming Metro Stations in Guangzhou issued by the Guangzhou Civil Affairs Bureau in March 2019, the same transfer station of two or more metro lines should use the same name, and the name that was used first shall prevail, so the naming was not adopted.
The station site of Line 22 was enclosed from 12 July 2019. In order to cooperate with the project, the original Exit C of the station was closed on 31 August 2020. The main structure of the station laid the base slab in February 2024 and topped out in August of the same year.