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Line 16 (Guangzhou Metro)

line of the Guangzhou Metro

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ11062042 ↗
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Line 16 of the Guangzhou Metro is a planned rapid transit line in Guangzhou, China. It will be 38.4 kilometres (23.9 mi) long and will have 14 stations. The line will connect Xintang (Chinese: 新塘) and Lichengjie (Chinese: 荔城街), 2 major areas with the strongest economy and largest population in the Zengcheng District. The line is planned to connect with Line 4 of Dongguan Rail Transit in the future.

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The line will use six-car trains with a maximum speed of 120 kilometres per hour (75 mph).

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“Line 16 (Guangzhou Metro)” enters the record as line of the Guangzhou Metro. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Line, Guangzhou and Metro can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Line 16 (Guangzhou 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.