Wuhan Metro

Rapid transit is provided by the Wuhan Metro in the Chinese province of Hubei. The network, which is owned and run by Wuhan Metro Group Co., Ltd., now has 11 lines, 291 stations, and a 460 km (290 mi) total length. Wuhan Metro is the sixth-busiest rapid transit system in mainland China in 2019 with 1.22 billion yearly riders. Several lines or parts are still being built. The residents of Wuhan City were assured by the local authorities that at least two lines or portions will open annually.

After Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Changchun, and Dalian, Wuhan became the seventh city in mainland China to have a rapid transit system when Line 1, the first line in the system, opened on July 28, 2004. Line 2 is the first subterranean rail line to cross the Yangtze River, and it was inaugurated on December 28, 2012. Since then, the system has rapidly expanded.

The city of Wuhan intended to use the corridor after demolishing the former Beijing-Hankou Railway to build the city's first rapid transit rail line. The Wuhan Municipal Construction Commission established the Wuhan Metro Construction Group in September 1992, and a monitoring group headed by the mayor Qian Yunlu was subsequently established in 1993 to help with the project's financing, planning, logistics, and administration. The city was unable to fund construction for seven years.

Location: China