On the occasion of celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, June 28, 2021, including Hangzhou Metro Line 8, Hangzhou-Haizhou Intercity Railway; Hangzhou-Shaoxing Intercity Railway (Keqiao Section of Shaoxing Metro Line 1); Changzhou Metro Line 2; Xuzhou Metro Line 3 Phase I has 4 cities and 5 lines officially opened to traffic. On June 29, 2021, two more lines, Xi'an Metro Line 14 and Suzhou Metro Line 5 will be officially put into operation.

Xi'an Metro Line 14

On June 29, the section from North Passenger Station (North Square) to Heshao of Xi'an Metro Line 14 was officially put into operation, and the inter-city through operation of Xi'an Metro Line 14 was unified as Xi'an Metro Line 14. At this point, a line that has created a number of firsts in the history of Xi'an subway construction and operation will start a new journey. The construction period is the shortest, the two lines are combined into one, the first full-line smart urban rail project in China, etc.

Suzhou Metro Line 5

On June 29, the opening ceremony of Suzhou Rail Transit Line 5 was held. Line 5 is a 44.1-kilometer Suzhou rail transit line, with 34 stations, including 9 transfer stations, connecting Taihu Lake, Jinji Lake, Dushu Lake, and Yangcheng Lake, and intersecting with the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, forming four lakes naturally. A unique rail transit cultural and tourism dedicated line of a canal. Relying on the abundant cultural and tourism resources in the surrounding area, Line 5 has become the first full-scene cultural tourism characteristic line in China.

Line 5 is the first urban rail transit line in Jiangsu Province that adopts fully automatic operation technology. As a fully automatic line, Line 5 can automatically wake up and exit the warehouse according to the timetable, automatically enter, stop, open, close, exit, and turn back on the line, and can stop at the station without permission. Automatically adjust the parking accuracy until the end of the operation and automatically enter the storage to sleep.

Combined with fully automatic operation, Line 5, known as the "Smart Small Five", also uses a lot of new smart technologies. One is the first automatic switch station for station management. The second is the precise adjustment function of train air conditioning. In addition, the voice ticketing function launched by the Suzhou Olympic Sports Center Station on a trial basis provides further convenience for passengers to purchase tickets; the real-time monitoring function of passenger flow in the station is not only for the organization and coordination of the subway operation department. Management and control provide data support and provide accurate information services for passenger travel. Editor/He Yuting