Beijing subway Line 4 opens today

Published: 27 Sep 2009 19:21:52 PST

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Sep. 28, 2009 (China Knowledge) - The Beijing municipal government opens the N0. 4 subway line today, three days ahead of the National Day of the People's Republic of China on Oct. 1, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

The new subway line runs south to north, parallel and to the west of Line 5, through Haidian, Xicheng, Xuanwu and Fengtai Districts in the western half of the city. Line 4 is 28.2 km long with 24 stations.

The new line is managed by Beijing MTR Corp Ltd, a joint-venture among the Hong Kong MTR Corp Ltd<0066>, Beijing Capital Group, and Beijing Infrastructure Investment Co.

Beijing currently has eight subway lines with a combined length of 200 km, and it plans to build more subway lines, extending the total length to 300 km by 2010 and 560 by 2015.