The Beijing subway is a service of Beijing urban rail transit system in China. Its planning began in 1953, engineering was established in 1965, the first line was completed in 1969, it began operations in 1971. The first subway system is the greater China area.

As of December 28, 2014, Beijing metro article 18 lines (including 17 metro lines and 1 the airport rail), composed of cover 11 municipal district of Beijing, has 318 operating station (interchange station double-counting, don't repeat calculation interchange station for the 268 - seat station), the total length of 527 km operating lines of rail transit system.

In 2014, 3.41 billion people in the Beijing subway passenger volume. In 2014, the Beijing subway working day average daily passenger loads up to 10.0876 million passengers. On April 30, 2015, Beijing subway a one-day passenger peak, 11.78 million.

According to the shipping department comes the news that a few days ago, Beijing, tianjin the second phase of the construction of urban rail transit planning and the third phase of the construction of urban rail transit planning of shenzhen adjustment plan approved by the national development and reform commission, a total investment of more than 460 billion yuan