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 ...

For our Summer Travel series, NPR's correspondents all over the world are sending audio postcards of the countries they cover. And today, we go to Beijing, China. There, our correspondent Emily Feng ...

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 ...

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.) ...

A photo essay at Vice by Oscar Holland and Lukas von Rantzau shows an entire day on Line 2 of Beijing’s subway, from the first train to the last: 5:05 AM – The doors to the first train open. “Welcome ...

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 ...

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 ...