When the Beijing Subway opened on 1 October 1969, only two short lines served the growing Chinese capital. Now, with a population of over 17.4 million in the metro area, Beijing has to act fast to ...

Beijing's metro network was proposed more than 50 years ago to mixed reactions. Li Ye traces the history. It is 1969, and workers who took part in the subway construction eagerly wait for the first ...

For our summer travel series, our Beijing correspondent rides the city's subway system and explores the history of each stop — above ground and below ground. For our Summer Travel series, NPR's ...

On March 8, two months after four new lines started operation, Beijing's 16 metro lines have completed more than ten million passenger rides per day, officially making it the busiest subway in the ...

Beijing's urban rail transit system handled 3.58 billion passenger trips in 2025 as the city stepped up efforts to improve service quality and operational efficiency, according to a report by Beijing ...

BEIJING -- Its a scene Zhang Haijie faces everyday. At seven thirty in the morning, a meters deep crowd has formed outside the entrance to Beijing’s Tiantongyuanbei subway station. Weary looking ...

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Reporting from BEIJING — When a single mother was crushed to death while trying to get onto an overcrowded subway train in November, it pointed to a problem that transit officials in the Chinese ...

Recently I took my 200th trip on the Beijing Metro. I know because I used up the fourth 100RMB charge on my Metro card, below. (Rides are for now 2RMB apiece, about 28 cents, regardless of distance.) ...

In 2015, photos of Caojiawan Station in Chongqing spread across Western media and became a minor internet sensation. The ...