According to Beijing city blog Beijingologist, the new line 8, line 10 and Airport Express will open this week! A date has been announced as “pre-July 20, 2008″… after several delays let’s hope it’s for real this time.

You can see the routes of the new lines on the interactive ExploreBeijing subway map.

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