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Demao station

Beijing Subway station in Daxing, Beijing

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
Places and architectureInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ57658585 ↗
Source-derived summary

Demao station (Chinese: 德茂站; pinyin: Démào zhàn) is a station on Line 8 of the Beijing Subway. It was opened on December 30, 2018.

Station layout

The station has an elevated island platform.

Exits

There are 4 exits, lettered A1, A2, B1, and B2. Exits A1 and B1 are accessible.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Demao station” is beijing Subway station in Daxing, Beijing. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Demao, station and Beijing, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Demao, station and Beijing is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “beijing Subway station in Daxing, Beijing” 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 Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q57658585. Authority coordinates are 39.771, 116.436. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

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 “Demao station”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Demao station primary sources, Demao station archive and Demao 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 “Demao station”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Demao station” 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.