Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited Shanghai Metro on Saturday. He visited the monitoring room of entire Shanghai city and appreciated the Metro System. He also visited the Shanghai train station. He was briefed about the project that Shanghai Metro is a rapid transit system in Shanghai, China.
The first line opened in 1993, making Shanghai the third city in mainland China, after Beijing and Tianjin, to have a rapid transit system. Since then, the Shanghai Metro has become one of the fastest-growing rapid transit systems in the world, with several lines still under construction.
Overall, there are 14 metro lines and 329 stations with an operating route length of 538 kilometres making it the longest in the world. The Shanghai Metro ranks third in the world in annual riders-hip, with 2.5 billion rides delivered in 2013. It set a daily rider-ship record of 9.381 million on April 30, 2014. On a normal weekday over 8 million people use the Shanghai Metro.
On 16 October 2013, with the extension of Line 11 into Kunshan, Jiangsu province, Shanghai Metro became the first rapid transit system in China to connect two provincial-level administrative divisions. Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari also visited Pucheng Power Shanghai. This power station generates 12MW electricity from the municipal garbage. Chairman PPP hoped to get the benefits from Chinese technology in Karachi city. Chief Minister Sindh Qaim Ali Shah, Sherry Rehman, Sindh Minister for Finance Murad Ali Shah, Chairman Board of Investment Ali Arshad Hakeem were also present with the Chairman PPP.