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| ridership = 3.065 million daily <ref name=autogenerated1>(Chinese) [http://news.xinhuanet.com/newscenter/2009-01/03/content_10595660.htm "上海：地铁日客流首破400万人次大关 " ''Xinhua''] Jan. 3, 2009</ref>
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The '''Shanghai Metro''' (also officially known as the '''Shanghai Rail Transit''') is the urban [[rapid transit]] system of China's largest city, [[Shanghai]]. The system incorporates both subway (地铁) and light railway (轻轨) lines. It opened in 1995, making Shanghai the third city in [[Mainland China]], after [[Beijing Subway|Beijing]] and [[Tianjin Metro|Tianjin]], to have a subway. Since then, the Shanghai Metro has become one of the newest and fastest-growing rapid transit systems in the world. Today, there are eight metro lines,
The system is still growing, more new lines and extensions are under construction, and plans through 2020 project a system comprising 20 routes and 877 km length. The latest major additions came on December 29, 2007, when lines 6, 8 and 9 along with the extension to lines 1<ref>[[Shanghai Daily]], [http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200712/20071226/article_342933.htm], Longest wait times expected on Line 6, 2007-12-26.</ref> and 4<ref name="lines_finished">[[Shanghai Daily]], [http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070719/article_323969.htm], Subway expansion shuts major artery, 2007-7-19.</ref> entered into operation at the same time, with a ceremony at the newly-built interchange hall of [[People's Square (Shanghai Metro)|People's Square]].<ref>[http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200711/20071128/article_339708.htm Rail hub will ease commuters' tired legs]</ref><ref>[http://sh.eastday.com/eastday/dfzb/d/20071128/u1a378587.html 上海5条地铁线初定12月28日通车[图]]</ref>, and the latest new line or extension is the South Extension of Line 8, which opened at Jul.5,2009. Eight more lines or line extensions will open before [[Expo 2010]].
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