According to Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport and Beijing Public Transport, the city’s bus routes has grown from 1 to more than 2,200 over the past 75 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, ranking first in the world.

The bus fleet has expanded from 164 to more than 23,000 vehicles, increasing by more than 100 times. At present, there are 2,257 bus routes operating in Beijing. Every weekday, 20,000 buses make 147,000 trips that serve over 6.6 million passengers.

In recent years, Beijing has been among the first in China to adopt purely electric buses and deploy hybrid buses on a large scale. Clean energy and new energy buses now account for nearly 94.7 percent of the city’s bus fleet, making it the world’s largest clean energy bus fleet.

(Source: Beijing Daily App)