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 Airport Express train travels towards central Beijing after leaving Terminal 3 of the Beijing Capital International Airport. The Beijing Subway service also has a station at Terminal 2 and is ...

From Chinese economy beating forecasts to Australian prime minister’s visit to China, here’s a round-up from today’s coverage ...

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 ...

It can be used in all 21 Shanghai subway lines and 29 Beijing subway lines. JCB cardholders can now use their contactless ...

Dozens of troops with Stinger missiles, machine guns, and grenade launchers were filmed riding the subway and practicing movement in stations.

From having five subway lines that ran about 87 miles in 2007, when the city’s anywhere-you-can-ride subway pricing was introduced, Beijing today has 18 subway lines that cover more than 327 ...

Last month, Beijing Subway started to use pinyin names to replace part of the English translations for subway signs. Notably, zhan substituted station and daxue replaced university.

In Beijing, two subway trains collided in heavy snow, resulting in 515 people being sent to the hospital, including 102 with broken bones, officials say.

Beijing's subway has dropped mandatory mask requirements for travellers, local media reported on Sunday, days after a Chinese health expert said the threat of COVID-19 to humans is no longer at a ...

The Beijing subway isn’t the first to add a library. A metro station in Bucharest temporarily plastered station walls with a giant print of library shelves, complete with QR codes on book spines.

Earlier this month, a map of Hong Kong's MTR system with stations' Chinese names literally translated into English made the rounds on the Internet. It also got us at China Real Time wondering ...