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Hengyang Metro

metro system in Hengyang, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 5, 2026
Entity authorityQ85884146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hengyang Metro (Chinese: 衡阳轨道交通; pinyin: Héngyáng Guǐdào Jiāotōng), officially Hengyang Rail Transit, is a planned monorail rapid transit system in Hengyang, Hunan, China. Once completed, the system is scheduled to comprise six lines and have a total length of 158 km.

History

A rapid transit system in Hengyang has been planned since 2017. In September 2017, a contract was signed between the municipal council of Hengyang and BYD, whose Hunan headquarters are located within the city, for a straddle beam monorail system to be constructed in Hengyang.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Hengyang, Metro and metro is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hengyang Metro” 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.