Tongdewei, Residential district in Baiyun, Guangzhou, China.
Tongdewei is a residential district in Baiyun that developed from five separate villages: Ezhang, Tianxin, Yuexi, Shangbu, and Hengjiao. These communities sit along tributaries of the Pearl River and are now connected by roads and modern infrastructure.
The five villages formed in the early 1900s when water transport attracted merchants to settle. After 1990, they gradually merged into a planned residential district through municipal housing development.
The district keeps the names and spatial arrangement of the five original villages that now blend into one residential area. You can still notice how the old village boundaries shape the streets and neighborhoods today.
Metro Line 8 runs through the area with multiple stops to help you get around easily. Use Xiwan Road and Xicha Road as main north-south routes when navigating on foot or by local transport.
The area still follows a 1990s master plan that deliberately connected the five historical villages as one district. This created an unusual mix of traditional village patterns with modern residential development.
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