The first subway line proposed in September 1953 was meant to be a wartime bunker. ... In 1981, 32 years after it was first proposed, the Beijing Metro Line 1 was finally fully in operation.

Hundreds of commuters, dozens of them with fractured bones, were sent to the hospital in Beijing on Thursday after two trains collided on a busy metro line during snowy conditions, the city’s ...

That's because Beijing subway line 2 traces nearly exactly the loop where the city's Ming dynasty city walls once stood. The history of Beijing is literally traced by line 2's underground footprint.

BEIJING: Beijing on Sunday opened a new subway line in order to reduce road traffic congestion and pollution levels ahead of the Olympics. This comes a week after Beijing announced a 33% cut in ...

Beijing now has nine subway lines in use, which stretch for 228 km. In 2015, they are expected to carry more than 10 million passengers a day with a total length of 561 km.

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. Support for LAist comes from.