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 of Ezhang, Tianxin, Yuexi, Shangbu and Hengjiao belonged to Nanhai County from the Qing dynasty to the Republic. In 1990 the Guangzhou government designated Tongdewei a large housing-relief area; in 1996 metro and Inner Ring Road works resettled tens of thousands of old-city households here, and a teacher village followed in 1998.

The name Tongdewei comes from the Shijing River and Pearl River tributaries that enclose the area on all sides. The five old villages — Ezhang, Tianxin, Yuexi, Shangbu and Hengjiao — were part of Nanhai County from the Qing dynasty until the Republic. In 2012 the city set up a consultative committee of local residents, the first body of its kind in Guangzhou, chaired by resident Han Zhipeng.

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.