{"id":5,"date":"2004-10-16T21:50:25","date_gmt":"2004-10-16T13:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=5"},"modified":"2005-09-16T17:43:22","modified_gmt":"2005-09-16T09:43:22","slug":"shanghai-to-rename-streets-eliminating-duplicates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/shanghai-to-rename-streets-eliminating-duplicates\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai to rename streets, eliminating duplicates"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The city government will rename 339 streets across Shanghai to remove confusion caused by duplicate names&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the government hopes all repeated names will be changed by the end of next year.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Bo, deputy director of the city&#8217;s place naming office, said yesterday that the task of renaming streets was far from easy, as door plates have to be replaced, ID cards updated, and related government documents replaced.<\/p>\n<p>The city has many duplicate road names because suburban districts were allowed to choose the name of streets until 1999, according to the place naming office&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>The bureau has launched <a href=\"http:\/\/smi.stn.sh.cn\/dmb\">a Website in pinyin and Chinese characters to help visitors pinpoint roads with the same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Usually an east-west street is named with a city name while a south-north street is named with a provincial name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/english.eastday.com\/eastday\/englishedition\/Districts\/Jiading\/userobject1ai584716.html\">source<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city government will rename 339 streets across Shanghai to remove confusion caused by duplicate names&#8230;. Officials said the government hopes all repeated names will be changed by the end of next year. Liu Bo, deputy director of the city&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2004\/shanghai-to-rename-streets-eliminating-duplicates\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,32,20,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-chinese","category-chinese-characters","category-mandarin","category-pinyin","category-shanghai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}