This Day, That Year

Item from March 3, 1999, in China Daily: An employee of the Shanghai Subway No 1 line shows an integrated circuit card and a magnetic card.

These cards came into use on Monday, replacing tickets. Shanghai is the first city in Chinese mainland to implement this new system. ...

In September, Shanghai Metro's Line 10 received the Award of Merit from the International Federation of Consulting Engineers for the transit system's adoption of new technologies.