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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.
Hundreds of commuters, dozens of them with fractured bones, were sent to hospital in Beijing on Thursday after two trains collided on a busy metro line during snowy conditions, the city’s ...
China News: Beijing on Sunday opened a new subway line in order to reduce road traffic congestion and pollution levels ahead of the Olympics.
In 1961, Beijing's subway program was postponed indefinitely. With tightened purse strings and no foreign help, home-trained technicians and new overseas returnees sustained the program.
BEIJING: Construction began Friday to extend a metro line in Beijing built for the 2008 Olympics. According to the municipal transport authorities, the No. 8 line will be extended both to the ...
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.