Guangzhou Metro

The Guangzhou Metro is the city of Guangzhou's rapid transport system in China's Guangdong Province. It was the fourth metro system to be established in mainland China after those of Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai and is run by the government-owned Guangzhou Metro Corporation.

Guangzhou began making its first underground rapid transport system construction attempts in 1960. The project was brought up five times in the two decades that followed, but each time it was shelved owing to technical and budgetary issues. The planning for what is now the Guangzhou Metro did not begin until the 1980s, and the first line, Line 1, did not formally commence construction until 1993. Five stations were operational when Line 1 finally opened in 1997, four years later.

Even though it has only been servicing southern China's population for 22 years, Guangzhou Metro is currently rated seventh in the world with 257 stations. With a 478km route length, the third-longest metro system has an average of 8 million daily riders. On June 6 of this year, it peaked with 10.62 million riders per day. Overall, it was identified as the third metro system in 2018 with more than 3 billion riders.

Location: China