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 ...

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 ...

The expansion of the Beijing Metro could serve as a metaphor for the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a superpower: Its first line opened in 1969, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, ...

The best ways to get around Beijing are on foot and by subway. As one of the largest, most populous cities in the world, Beijing has its fair share of traffic problems. During morning and evening rush ...

A view of the Beixinqiao metro station in Beijing. [Photo/IC] First-time foreign visitors to Beijing might choose the subway as the easiest way to get around the Chinese capital, but in recent days ...

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 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 ...

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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.) ...