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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Passengers exit from the Beijing West Railway Station of No 9 subway line in Beijing, capital of China, Dec 31, 2011. Beijing's subway system marked its 42nd year of operation on Tuesday, celebrating ...

Beijing's subway capacity was back to normal levels with commuters crowding the subway trains on Monday, as the capital city continues to emerge from a tough period of widespread COVID-19 infections.

Photo taken on June 15, 2019 shows a station of a new airport subway line at Beijing Daxing International Airport in Beijing, capital of China. Self-driving trains for the subway line connecting ...

An anti-sexual harassment campaign has launched in parts of the Beijing subway system amid repeated reports of assault against women on the city’s public transport system. Sponsored by the state-run ...

As Beijing welcomed 2022, residents in the Chinese capital noticed a subtle shift taking place in the city’s subway: on signs, the English word “station” has been replaced with “Zhan,” the pinyin, or ...

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 ...

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 ...