Jijie railway station
Jijie railway station 鸡街火车站 | |
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| General information | |
| Location | Jijie Town, Gejiu City, Yunnan Province China |
| Coordinates | 23°31′14″N 103°13′27″E / 23.52048°N 103.22413°E |
| History | |
| Opened |  1921 |
| Closed | 1990s |
Jijie railway station (Chinese: 鸡街火车站), also known as Gejiu Jijie Railway Station (个旧鸡街火车站)[1] or Jijie station,[2] was a station of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway.[3] The station is located in the north of Jijie Town of Gejiu City, its construction began in 1915[4] and was completed and put into use in 1921. Currently, the railway station has been abandoned.[5]
Gejiu has a long history of tin mining, which gave birth to an industrial architectural heritage group represented by the Jijie railway station.[6]
Buildings and lines
[edit]Its main building is a French-style building,[7] with station houses, waiting rooms, storage and transportation rooms, traffic lanes. It is the central hub station of Gebishi railway, reaching Mengzi in the east, Gejiu in the south, Jianshui and Shiping in the west, and Kaiyuan and Kunming in the north.[8]
Heritage conservation
[edit]On May 25, 2006, it was selected as Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level[9][10] by State Council of the People's Republic of China.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ Zhang Mei (1 January 2018). "Study on the Protection and Utilization Value of Yunnan-Vietnam Railway under the Belt and Road Initiative" Initiative. Yunnan University Press. pp. 148-. ISBN 978-7-5482-3343-5.
- ^ Michael V. Conlin; Geoffrey R. Bird (8 May 2014). Railway Heritage and Tourism: Global Perspectives. Channel View Publications. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-1-84541-438-2.
- ^ "Industrial heritage ushered in "highlight moment"" (PDF). People's Daily. Jun 15, 2020.
- ^ Xinhua Digest. People's Publishing House. 2007.
- ^ "New Direction of Tourism in Yunnan: Research on Development Suitability of Rural Industrial Heritage Resources". ResearchGate. January 4, 2019.
- ^ "Research on the Protection and Renewal of Industrial Architecture Heritage Based on the Model of Heritage Corridor——Taking "City of Tin Gejiu" as an example". CNKI. 2014-06-01.
- ^ Liu Liewu (5 May 2018). Southwest Xidu Mugu Mining Culture Research. Southwest University of Finance and Economics Press. pp. 61-. ISBN 978-7-5504-2812-6.
- ^ "The sixth batch of national key cultural relics protection units selected nine industrial heritage". Sina. May 9, 2006.
- ^ "Research on the Value of Protective Development of Industrial Heritage Tourism Based on Stakeholder Theory—Taking Honghe Area in Yunnan Province as an Example". ResearchGate. January 14, 2019.
- ^ "Shilongba Power Plant was selected as a national key cultural relic protection unit". State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. 2006-05-16.
- ^ "The State Council on the approval and announcement of the sixth batch of nationwide Notice from key cultural relics protection units". General Office of the State Council. 2006-06-02.
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