Baishizhou () is an area of Nanshan District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. about 150,000 people live in Baishizhou. () - Official Chinese translation: "深圳城中村面临拆除，15万人将何去何从" and "深圳城中村面臨拆除，15萬人將何去何從" With an area of , it has the most inhabitants, as well as the highest building and population density, of any urban village within Shenzhen. Accounting for unregistered and undocumented residents, some estimates of Baishizhou's rental population are well above two hundred thousand.
In 2014 Charlie Lanyon of The South China Morning Post described it as "one of the last vestiges of old Shenzhen".
History Before the mass-migration to the Shenzhen SEZ, Baishizhou had been a destination of immigrants and refugees for centuries. Modern narratives of the village's origins often date the earliest settlement at Baishizhou to a Qing Dynasty habitat named Village of the Ten Thousand Families. It is an amalgamation of five existing villages that became one circa 1958 after a collective farm opened. The Shenzhen government bought land around, but not within, the villages and redeveloped it.
In 2014, the Shenzhen government announced that it was going to demolish existing developments and redevelop Baishizhou, with another in 2019.
Culture Lanyon noted the abundance of street food and stated that the cuisine was inexpensive and also "excellent".
Transportation Baishizhou Station, Shenzhen Metro
Education
Shenzhen Saturday School (深圳補習授業校 Shinsen Hoshū Jugyō Kō), a Japanese weekend school, has its office on the 8th floor of the Jinsanjiao Building (金三角大厦/金三角大廈) in Baishizhou."日本人学校・補習授業校一覧." Consulate-General of Japan in Guangzhou (在広州日本国総領事館/日本国驻广州总领事馆). Retrieved on December 21, 2017. "深セン日本人補習校 518052 広東省深セン市南山区白石洲金三角大廈8階"
See also Urban village (China)
References
Further reading
Verbeelen, Katherine (University of Amsterdam). "The Collaboration of Actors in Urban Village Redevelopment Projects in Shenzhen, China" (master's degree thesis). Posted at the New Town Institute.