Beijing

  • the 19.8km broadly east-west Line 18 extends from Malianwa to Tiantongyuan East, with 11 stations
  • an 8.4km extension to Line 17’s central section from Gongren Tiyuchang on the line’s northern section, which opened in 2023, to Shilihe on the southern section, which opened in 2021, via four intermediate stations, and
  • a 2.1km southern extension of Line 6 from the current terminus at Lucheng to a new station at Luyang.

Shanghai

  • the 8.1km Phase 2 easterly extension of Line 18 adds six new stations from the Phase 1 terminus at Changjiang South Road to Kangwen Road. Construction of the line cost Yuan 12.6bn ($US 1.79bn).

Shenzhen

  • Line 13 Phase 1 northern extension in the western part of the city has nine stations and is 22.4km long. The southern section of the line opened in December 2024
  • the 2.8km western extension of Line 5 adds three stations
  • the 3.7km Phase 3 extension of Line 8 adds one station at Xiyong, and
  • the 2.3km Phase 2 extension of Line 11 adds one station.

Guangzhou

  • a 17.2km extension of Line 10 with 10 stations from Yangji East in Tianhe District southwest to Xiwan and an interchange with Line 1.

Xi’an

  • the new 19.4km east-west Line 15 Phase 1 with 13 stations.

Hefei

  • the 34.4km Line 6 has 22 stations running from Longtang in the east of the city to Qinglonggang in the west. Interchange is offered to lines 1, 3, 4 and 5.

In Jinan trains for lines 4, 6 and 8 were delivered in October 2025 and each of these lines look set to open in the early spring 2026 if not before.

Construction round-up

During 2025, construction got underway on more than 400km of new metro and suburban lines on networks in Chinese cities, adding a total of 158 new stations.

Beijing leads the pack with construction on nine lines totalling 50 route-km starting during the year. Three new lines in Changsha (16.7km), one each in Hangzhou (20.8km), Ma’anshan (46.3km), Nanning (4km) and Qingdao (2.1km), two in Shaoxing (35.6km), two in Shenzhen (30.9km), and one each in Tianjin (1.9 km), Xi’an (69.3km), and Xuzhou (25km). Nineteen of these are metro lines and four are suburban lines, and the total construction cost is Yuan 2.014 trillion.