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 ...

A specific check-in service was launched on Sunday that allows passengers to ride subway trains after taking a quick hand scanning in a designated line of the Beijing Metro, according to media reports ...

Authorities in the Chinese capital are planning to use facial recognition on the Beijing metro system to 'sort' millions of passengers by estimated security risk. The metro will be beefing up its ...

Beijing's metro network was proposed more than 50 years ago to mixed reactions. Li Ye traces the history. It is 1969, and workers who took part in the subway construction eagerly wait for the first ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up Forget about waiting in line at the ticket ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every Wednesday and Friday, TechNode’s Briefing newsletter delivers a roundup of the most important news in China tech, straight to your inbox. Sign up One day after Beijing metro realized citywide ...

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 ...