Shanghai

Shanghai, rapid transit system incorporates both subway (地铁) and light metro (轻轨) lines. It opened in 1995, making Shanghai the third city in Mainland China, after Beijing and Tianjin, to have a rapid transit system. Since then, the Shanghai Metro has become one of the fastest-growing rapid transit systems in the world.

As of 2012, there are 11 MRT lines, 1 Maglev line and 1 regional line, 279 stations and over 434 km of tracks in operation, the longest network in the world. The Shanghai Metro delivered 2.101 billion rides in 2011, the fifth busiest in the world. It set a daily ridership record of 7.548 million on 22 October 2010. The system continues to grow, with new lines and extensions of old lines currently under construction.