In 2021, 35 new urban rail transit lines will be added

By December 31, 2021, 51 cities in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps had 269 urban rail transit lines in operation, with a total length of 8,708 kilometers and 5,216 stations. 31.2 million trains had been run, carrying 23.71 billion passengers and 14.48 billion inbound passengers. The annual passenger turnover was 197.8 billion person-kilometers.

In 2021, 35 new urban rail transit lines will be added, with an additional 1,168 kilometers in operation, an increase of about 15 percent over 2020. Luoyang, Shaoxing, Jiaxing, Wenshan, Wuhu, Jiaxing (Haining) and Zhenjiang (Jurong) opened urban rail transit for the first time. In 2021, the annual passenger traffic will increase by 6.12 billion over 2020, up by about 35%, to 99.2% of 2019. The annual average passenger transport intensity was about 8,200 passengers per km/day, up about 14 percent from 2020 and down about 28 percent from 2019.