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Beijiao, Guangdong

town of Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong, China

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ4881089 ↗
Source-derived summary

Beijiao (simplified Chinese: 北滘镇; traditional Chinese: 北滘鎮; pinyin: Běijiào Zhèn) is a town in the district of Shunde, in the prefecture-level city of Foshan, Guangdong, China. The town covers an area of 92.11 square kilometres (35.56 sq mi). Per a 2020 publication by the government of Shunde District, Beijiao has a permanent population of about 420,000 people; Beijiao has a hukou population of 150,695 as of 2018.

Administrative divisions

The town is divided into 10 residential communities and 10 administrative villages.

Residential communities

Beijiao Residential Community (Chinese: 北滘社区)

Bijiang Residential Community (Chinese: 碧江社区)

Lintou Residential Community (Chinese: 林头社区)

Guangjiao Residential Community (Chinese: 广教社区)

Sanhongqi Residential Community (Chinese: 三洪奇社区)

Chayong Residential Community (Chinese: 槎涌社区)

Biguiyuan Residential Community (Chinese: 碧桂园社区)

Shunjiang Residential Community (Chinese: 顺江社区)

Junlan Residential Community (Chinese: 君兰社区)

Shejicheng Residential Community (Chinese: 设计城社区)

Administrative villages

Huanglong Village (Chinese: 黄龙村)

Shencun Village (Chinese: 莘村村)

Shuikou Village (Chinese: 水口村)

Malong Village (Chinese: 马龙村)

Shangliao Village (Chinese: 上僚村)

Xijiao Village (Chinese: 西滘村)

Gaocun Village (Chinese: 高村村)

Taocun Village (Chinese: 桃村村)

Xihai Village (Chinese: 西海村)

Sangui Village (Chinese: 三桂村)

Economy

As of 2019, Beijiao's GDP was ¥64.5 billion, and grew at 7.3% annual rate. The town exported ¥83 billion worth of goods. Beijiao's tax revenue in 2019 totaled ¥14.03 billion.

The headquarters of Midea Group and Country Garden are both located in Beijiao. DJI also has a presence in the city.

Near Beijiao, there is the static inverter plant of HVDC Tianshengqiao-I Dam.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Beijiao, Guangdong” is town of Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong, China. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Beijiao, Guangdong and town, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2018, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Beijiao, Guangdong and town is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “town of Shunde District, Foshan, Guangdong, China” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4881089. Authority coordinates are 22.931, 113.202. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2018 and 2019.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Beijiao, Guangdong”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Beijiao, Guangdong primary sources, Beijiao, Guangdong archive and Beijiao research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Beijiao, Guangdong”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Beijiao, Guangdong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.