On the subway in Beijing, as in most cities with underground Wi-Fi connections, commuters usually spend their rides mindlessly staring at their phones, scrolling through emails or playing games. But ...

Hundreds of commuters were sent to the hospital with injuries, including fractured bones, after two Beijing metro trains collided during evening rush hour on a busy route amid snowy weather. The crash ...

Two subway trains collided in heavy snow in Beijing, resulting in 515 people being sent to the hospital on Thursday evening. The incident occurred in the mountainous west of Beijing, on the ...

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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 ...

Chinese state media reported last week that Beijing’s subway system will soon use facial recognition technology to classify and divide passengers into groups for different security screenings. The ...

The expansion of the Beijing Metro could serve as a metaphor for the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a superpower: Its first line opened in 1969, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, ...

For our Summer Travel series, NPR's correspondents all over the world are sending audio postcards of the countries they cover. And today, we go to Beijing, China. There, our correspondent Emily Feng ...

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Beijing's rail transit service now accepts digital yuan for subway rides through an integration with the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. China continues expanding the scope of its central ...

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 ...

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 ...