Baotou Metro is a proposed metro system to serve the city of Baotou,

Inner Mongolia Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...

, China. Construction started in May 2017, and Lines 1 & 2 were to be open by 2022 when initial go ahead was granted by the NDRC in 2016, but the project was put on hold by the NDRC in November 2017 owing to concerns over cost.

Line planning

The east-west Line 1 is to be long with 22 stations. Construction was to begin on the Yuan 20.19bn ($US 3bn) project in May 2017 with commissioning scheduled for 2021. The first phase of the north-south Line 2 was be long with 11 stations and has a budget of Yuan 10.36bn. Construction was due to begin in 2018 and the line is to open in 2022. Services on both lines was to be operated by a fleet of six-car type A metro trains operating at a maximum of . In the longer-term a six-line network with 125 stations was envisaged. However the entire plan is suspended as of November 2017.

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