Chigang station


Chigang Station is a station on Line 8 of the Guangzhou Metro. It started operations on 28 June 2003. It is located to the northeast of the junction of Xingang Middle Road and Jiangnan Avenue in the Haizhu District.
Before the extension to both lines 2 and 8 opened in September 2010, this station ran as part of Line 2 as a single line from Wanshengwei to Sanyuanli.

Station layout

This station has two levels, ground level is at Xingang Middle Road, Guangdong Second People's Hospital and the nearby commercial complex, the first basement level is the station concourse, and the second basement level is the Line 8 platform.

Concourse

The concourse has a column-free design, making it more spacious. There are escalators and stairs in the fare-paid area for passengers to reach the platform. The elevator connecting the platform and the concourse requires the assistance of the station staff because the elevator door on the side of the concourse is located in the non-paid area on the west side.
In addition, the station also has a duck neck shop, as well as automatic vending machines, smart lockers and other facilities.
The baby change is located on the east side of the non-paid area of the concourse, near Exit D2.

Platform

The station has an island platform located under Xingang Middle Road.
In addition, there is a storage line at the east end of the station. When there is a fault on Line 8 east of this station, trains bound for Wanshengwei will turn back through this storage line and use this station as the temporary terminus.
The calligraphy of the station name of this site was written by Zhang Biaozhi, then vice chairman of the Guangzhou Calligraphers Association.

Exits

The station has 2 points of entry/exit. When the station was initially opened, Exits C1, C2 and D2 were set up. Due to the construction of Line 12 station, Exit D2 was closed since 10 October 2021. Exit C1 is accessible via stairlift.
In the 1988 subway network plan, this station appeared as the terminal station of Line 2 in Haizhu District. Later, in 1997, in Plan A, this station became an intermediate station of Line 5, which was dismantled from Line 2, and also interchanged with other lines. In later plans, this station was designated as an intermediate station on Line 8 and was no longer an interchange station. Subsequently, this station became one of the stations of the first phase of the old Line 2, which was built first, and the method of pre-emptive long-term split was adopted. Construction of the first phase of Line 2 officially started on 10 October 1999.
The storage line on the east side of the station was originally not planned. Since Kecun station to the west of this station was suddenly designated as a future interchange station with Line 3, the planned intermediate terminus needed to be moved east from to cover Kecun Station. However, Kecun Station did not add a storage line during construction, so it was changed to this station as the intermediate terminus. At the same time, a storage line was added to the east of the station to provide a small intersection turnback condition.
On 28 June 2003, the station was opened with the first phase of Line 2 from to. From 22 to 24 September 2010, the station was suspended along with the old Line 2 and the line was dismantled. In the early morning of 25 September, the service of this site was restarted with the new Line 8.
In the latest plan in 2014, Line 12 was changed to have a transfer at this station and was implemented with the launch of Line 12 in the first quarter of 2017. According to the relevant information of the 2019 Line 12 supervision bidding, Line 19 changed the planned alignment and added a planned transfer at this station.
During COVID-19 pandemic control rules at the end of 2022, due to the impact of prevention and control measures, station service was suspended from 09:00 on 5 November 2022 to the afternoon of 30 November 2022. During that time, it served candidates for college entrance examinations and other examinations, and normal services were still provided until 09:00 on the 5th and 6th.

Future development

Line 12 will stop at this station under the approach bridge of Liede Bridge, which will intersect with Line 8, while the new plan for Line 19 will also stop at this station on the east side of the Liede Bridge. Line 8 was planned and constructed without pre-existing interchange, and the construction of Line 12 will expand the existing concourse to enable concourse transfer.
The platform for Line 12 is located on the fourth underground floor on the north side of the Line 8 station, and the deepest pit of the station is 39.8 meters, making it the deepest station of Line 12. Line 19 is a long-term line, and a transfer node will be reserved on the sixth underground floor during construction of Line 12.
The Line 12 station site began to be enclosed on 14 March 2020. Main structure construction began in April 2022, and the station was topped out in October 2024. Due to the lag in the construction progress, the station could not be opened with the initial section of Line 12, but the station platform has completed civil works and decorations, and has been equipped with screen doors, escalators and elevators, as well as the necessary equipment. However, this station, like of Line 10, does not have a covered-up screen door, and passengers can see the platform when their train passes the station.