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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A subway line in Beijing looks like something out of a sci-fi movie. Line 6 had its subway windows replaced with a "magical window ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...