West Yan'an Road station

West Yan'an Road 延安西路
Station platform
General information
Location	Kaixuan Road (凯旋路) and West Yan'an Road Changning District, Shanghai China
Coordinates	31°12′35″N 121°25′01″E
Operated by	Shanghai No. 3 Metro Operation Co. Ltd.
Line(s)	Line 3      Line 4
Platforms	2 (2 side platforms)
Tracks	2
Construction
Structure type	Elevated
Accessible	Yes
History
Opened	26 December 2000 (2000-12-26) (Line 3) 31 December 2005 (2005-12-31) (Line 4)
Services
Preceding station Shanghai Metro Following station Zhongshan Park towards North Jiangyang Road Line 3 Hongqiao Road towards Shanghai South Railway Station Zhongshan Park Clockwise Line 4 Hongqiao Road Counter-clockwise
Location West Yan'an Road Location in Shanghai

West Yan'an Road (Chinese: 延安西路; pinyin: Yán'ān Xī Lù) is the name of an interchange station between Lines 3 and 4 on the Shanghai Metro network. The station is named after Yan'an Road, and opened on 26 December 2000 as part of the initial section of Line 3 from Shanghai South Railway Station to Jiangwan Town,[1][2] and Line 4 service began here on the final day of 2005.[3]

During the 2021 Shanghai People’s Congress deputies suggested to change the station name to Donghua University. “Names of Metro stations should give voice to the city’s cultural and historical landmarks, of which universities are surely a part,” said Wang Hongzhi, vice dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University. “It should become a rule that Metro stations located near universities are named after the institutions.”[4]

Gallery

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  Exterior with a Kung Fu chain restaurant
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  Xiabu Xiabu restaurant
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  West Yan'an Road station in 2008

References

1. 20年迈向世界：珍贵老照片展示上海地铁发展. Eastday (in Chinese). 27 May 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2013.
2. 上海市地方志办公室 上海通网站 上海市地情资料库 上海市的百科全书. shtong.gov.cn. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
3. 上海市地方志办公室 上海通网站 上海市地情资料库 上海市的百科全书. shtong.gov.cn. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
4. Professors call for renaming Metro stations after nearby universities