The
Wuhan Metro is an elevated and underground urban
metro system in the city of
Wuhan,
Hubei,
China, operated by the Wuhan Metro Co., Ltd. The system began its operation on July 28, 2004 with the completion of a ten-station long elevated rail between
Huangpu Road and
Zongguan, making Wuhan the fifth city in
mainland China to have a metro system after
Beijing,
Tianjin,
Shanghai, and
Guangzhou. Line 1 is the first Metro line in China to have been wrongly referred to as a light rail (轻轨,
qing gui) system in Chinese terminology. , there are four lines in operation, totaling 102 stations and of system length. The daily ridership of Wuhan Metro ranges from 1,000,000 to 1,500,000.