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Beijing

Driverless subway line to open

Beijing will open its first subway line with self-driving trains this year, local authorities said on Friday. The facility is the first fully domestically developed automated subway line on the Chinese mainland, said a spokesman for the Beijing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development. The 16.6-km Yanfang Line will improve transportation for residents living in the city's southwestern suburb of Fangshan, the spokesman said.