The

Nanjing Metro The Nanjing Metro is a rapid transit system serving the List of administrative divisions of Nanjing, urban and suburban districts of Nanjing, the capital city of Jiangsu Province in the People's Republic of China. Proposals for a metro system ...

is a rapid transit system serving

Nanjing Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yang ...

, the capital of

Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...

province, with stations in all of the city's eleven

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. It is constructed, maintained, and operated by the Nanjing Metro Group Company. The results of Nanjing's 2015 Municipal Bureau of Statistics count showed that Nanjing Metro carried a total of 720 million rides that year. The idea for a metro system in Nanjing was first proposed in 1984 in the Nanjing Municipal People's Congress as a way to ease traffic concerns. An underground alignment was preferred in order to "protect the historical city's monuments and walls". Over the next few years, the city hired researchers and engineers to plan the system and to study existing metros like Hong Kong's

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. In 1992, construction began on an experimental station in what would later become Sanshanjie station. In 1999, following the successful completion of the station's experimental phase, Nanjing became the fifth city after

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, and

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to receive approval from the

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to begin work on a subway. Roughly one year later in December, construction on the initial line of the system broke ground. The system spans and has 218 stations, divided between urban line stations and

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line stations. There are 16 transfer stations, Andemen, Daxinggong, Gulou, Jimingsi, Jinmalu, Konggangxinchengjiangning, Maqun, Taifenglu, Wutangguangchang, Xiangyulunan, Xiaozhuang, Xinjiekou, Youfangqiao, Yuantong, Nanjing Railway Station, and Nanjing South Railway Station, with the latter two also connecting to China's nationwide conventional rail and

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network. An additional two stations (Yuantong and Olympic Stadium East) connect to the Hexi tram and one ( Lukou International Airport Station) serves the city's

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. Systemwide, service begins every morning with the earliest train scheduled to depart Yushanlu station on Line 10 at 5:40 a.m. and concludes with the final train scheduled to arrive at Maigaoqiao Station on

Line 1 Line 1 or 1 line may refer to: Public transport Africa * Line 1 (Algiers Metro), Algeria * Cairo Metro Line 1, Egypt Asia China * Line 1 (Beijing Subway) * Line 1 (Changchun Rail Transit) * Line 1 (Changsha Metro) * Line 1 (Changzhou Metro) * ...

just after 12:27 a.m. the next morning.

Lines

* Discrepancies between these figures are explained by interchange stations. If interchange stations are counted once for each line they serve, there would be 236 stations.

is the first operating line in the Nanjing Metro system. The initial north–south segment became operational on September 3, 2005, serving 16 stops between Maigaoqiao and Olympic Stadium stations. In 2010, a 12-station, southward extension of Line 1 opened, forking the line at

Andemen station Andemen station (), is a transfer station of Line 1 and Line 10 of the Nanjing Metro. It started operations on 3 September 2005 as part of Line 1's Phase I that ran north to ; the previous branch of Line 1 from this station to was re-designa ...

; four years later, an extended western fork broke away and became Line 10. Shortly after the southern extension of Line 1 was completed, a second, east–west oriented line opened for service. While originally planned to open in phases, all 26 stations of Line 2 opened simultaneously in May 2010. That same year, groundbreaking work began for Line 3, which opened in 2015 with 29 stations. Phase one of Line 4 opened two years later in January 2017, with 18 stations spanning a length of . As of Line 4's opening, there is just under of urban metro lines in operation. The Nanjing Metro also operates six

branded suburban metro lines: Line S1 (or the Nanjing–Gaochun Intercity Railway Phase I), Line S3 (or the Nanjing–He County Intercity Railway), Line S7 (or the Nanjing–Lishui Intercity Railway), Line S8 (or the Nanjing–Tianchang Intercity Railway), and Line S9 (or the Nanjing–Gaochun Intercity Railway Phase II). The Line S1 opened in 2014 ahead of the Nanjing

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, and connected Lukou International Airport with the rest of the metro system. Line S8 opened soon after, connecting suburban

Luhe District Luhe District ( zh, s= , t= , p=Lùhé Qū) (sometimes read as ''Liùhé'' ''Qū'') is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one ...

with the metro network, with plans to eventually extend to neighboring

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. Line S3 opened in late 2017, and is the third line to cross the

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. Lines S7 and S9, respectively connecting the far southern districts of

Lishui Lishui (; Lishuinese: ''li⁶ syu³'' ) is a prefecture-level city in the southwest of Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It borders Quzhou, Jinhua and Taizhou to the north, Wenzhou to the southeast, and the province of Fujian to ...

and

Gaochun Gaochun District (), formerly Gaochun County () until January 2013, is one of 11 districts of Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province, China. The southernmost of Nanjing's districts, bordering the province of Anhui to the south and west, it spans ...

to Line S1, opened on May 26, 2018 and December 30, 2017, respectively. Line S6 opened in December 2021, extending the Nanjing Metro system outside of Nanjing city limits for the first time. These six lines collectively consist of .

Stations

The Nanjing Metro operates 175 stations across nine lines, with 118 stations on the system's five urban lines and 73 along its six S-lines. Among these are transfer stations to China's

and conventional passenger rail network, as well as Nanjing's tramway and

. Additionally, the metro's expansion plans consist of one urban rail and three suburban rail lines opening within the next five years, expanding the system by an additional 64 stations, with transfer stations counted once per line. The system's largest and busiest station is Xinjiekou, the transfer station between Lines 1 and 2, with 24 officially marked exits and a floor dedicated to retail and commercial activities. Xinjiekou attracted 158,200 passengers on New Year's Eve in 2015 and 130,500 daily passengers in 2016 during China's week-long National Day holiday. The metro stations in Nanjing South Railway Station and Nanjing Railway Station carried 102,000 and 99,800 daily riders respectively during the same holiday period. Other high-ridership stations include Daxinggong, Sanshanjie,

Fuzimiao Nanjing Fuzimiao () or Fuzimiao (), is a Confucius Temple and former site of imperial examination hall located in southern Nanjing City on banks of the Qinhuai River. It is now a popular tourist attraction with pedestrian shopping streets arou ...

, Gulou, and Xiamafang.

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References

Notes

* Andemen Station has two types of platforms, an elevated platform for Line 1 trains and an underground platform for Line 10 trains. * Jinmalu Station has two types of platforms, an at-grade platform for Line 2 trains and an underground platform for Line 4 trains. * Nanjing South Railway Station has two types of platforms: two underground platforms for cross-platform transfers between Line 1 and Line 3 trains, and a separate underground platform for Line S1 and Line S3 trains. * All station locations are

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except for

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, a

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under neighboring

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, and

Chuzhou Chuzhou () is a prefecture-level city in eastern Anhui Provinces of China, Province, China. It borders the provincial capital of Hefei to the south and southwest, Huainan to the west, Bengbu to the northwest, and the province of Jiangsu to the ...

, a

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in neighboring

Citations

External links

Nanjing Metro Website (in Chinese)
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