This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2017-06-30 10:13
Item from June 30, 1997, in China Daily: The first section of Metro No 1 in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, opened on Saturday.
Guangzhou is China's fourth city with a subway, after Beijing, Tianjin and Shanghai.
The line can handle 1.13 million passengers a day, accounting for more than 10 percent of the city's daily urban passenger flow.
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