Beijing's metro was approved in 1965 and had a first line of 24km, primarily motivated by military considerations. It was the first line in China and opened on 1 October 1969. China and its capital ...

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 ...

Hundreds of commuters were sent to the hospital with injuries, including fractured bones, after two Beijing metro trains collided during evening rush hour on a busy route amid snowy weather. The crash ...

Starting Sunday, contactless tap-and-go access and ticket purchase functions for overseas-issued JCB cards and American Express cards have been equipped with Beijing's urban subway system. This marks ...

One of the most noticeable aspects of the Beijing Subway is how tickets are still checked manually by humans at the entrance to each platform. This era of manual ticket checking is about end as ...

Last week, China Real Time published a map of Beijing subway stops, with names literally translated. Inspired by a similar map of Hong Kong's MTR stations, we figured residents of the country's ...

Hong Kong's Mass Transit Railway (MTR) has commissioned the 14.8km Phase II East Section of Beijing Metro Line 14 to serve commuters in the Chinese capital. Hong Kong’s Mass Transit Railway (MTR) has ...

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.) ...

I am by no means a Beijing Metro expert and cannot speak to how representative this is, but check out this mind-blowing video of crowding at one of Beijing’s transfer stations: But this is the kind of ...