West Yan'an Road () is the name of an interchange station between Lines 3 and 4 on the

Shanghai Metro The Shanghai Metro (; Shanghainese: ''Zaon6he5 Di6thiq7'') is a rapid transit system in Shanghai, operating urban and suburban transit services to 14 of its 16 municipal districts and to Kunshan, Jiangsu Province. Served as a part of Shang ...

network. The station is named after

Yan'an Road Yan'an Road (; Shanghainese: Yi'ue Lu) is a road in Shanghai, a major east–west thoroughfare through the centre of the city. The modern Yan'an Road is in three sections, reflecting three connected streets which existed pre-1945: Avenue Edward ...

, and opened on 26 December 2000 as part of the initial section of Line 3 from to , and Line 4 service began here on the final day of 2005. During the 2021 Shanghai People’s Congress deputies suggested to change the station name to Donghua University. “Names of Metro stations should give voice to the city’s cultural and historical landmarks, of which universities are surely a part,” said Wang Hongzhi, vice dean of the College of Materials Science and Engineering at Donghua University. “It should become a rule that Metro stations located near universities are named after the institutions.”Professors call for renaming Metro stations after nearby universities
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Gallery

File:KUNGFUYananRoadMetro.jpg, Exterior with a Kung Fu chain restaurant File:XiabuXiabuShanghaiWestYananRoad.jpg, Xiabu Xiabu restaurant File:Yanan_Road_(W)_Station.jpg, West Yan'an Road station in 2008

References

Shanghai Metro stations in Changning District Line 3, Shanghai Metro Line 4, Shanghai Metro Railway stations in China opened in 2000 Railway stations in Shanghai {{Shanghai-metro-stub