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Line 8 of the
Wuhan Metro Wuhan Metro is a rapid transit system serving the city of Wuhan, Hubei, China. Owned and operated by Wuhan Metro Group Co., Ltd., the network now includes 12 lines, 312 stations, and 518 kilometres of track length. With 1.35 billion annual passe ...
was opened on 26 December 2017 as the sixth line in the Wuhan Metro network and the third line (after Line 2 and Line 4) in the system to cross the
Yangtze River The Yangtze or Yangzi ( or ) is the longest river in Eurasia and the third-longest in the world. It rises at Jari Hill in the Tanggula Mountains of the Tibetan Plateau and flows including Dam Qu River the longest source of the Yangtze, i ...
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History

Line 8 is 38.197 kilometers in length and is completed in three phases. The first phase of Line 8, running from Jintan Road station in
Hankou Hankou, alternately romanized as Hankow (), was one of the three towns (the other two were Wuchang and Hanyang) merged to become modern-day Wuhan city, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers w ...
to Liyuan station in
Wuchang Wuchang is one of 13 urban District (China), districts of the prefecture-level city of Wuhan, the capital of Hubei, Hubei Province, China. It is the oldest of the three cities that merged into modern-day Wuhan, and stood on the right (southea ...
, was opened on 26 December 2017. The second phase takes a north-south alignment in Wuchang from Liyuan station to Yezhihu station opened on 2 January 2021. The third phase, an extension lately added to previous Line 8 plans, runs from Yezhihu station to Military Athletes' Village station, intending to serve the athlete village and audiences of
2019 Military World Games The 2019 Military World Games ( zh, c=2019年世界军人运动会, p=nián shìjiè jūnrén yùndònghuì), officially known as the 7th CISM Military World Games, ( zh, c=第七届世界军人运动会, p=dì qī jiè shìjiè jūnrén yùndòng ...
. Therefore, the third phase was opened on 6 November 2019, prior to the scheduled open date of the second phase.


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