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Jinhua Rail Transit

rail transit system in Jinhua City, Zhejiang, China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ17028075 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jinhua Rail Transit (simplified Chinese: 金华轨道交通; traditional Chinese: 金華軌道交通; pinyin: Jīnhuá Guǐ​dào Jiāotōng) is a suburban rapid transit system in the prefecture-level city of Jinhua, in Zhejiang Province, China. It opened on 30 August 2022.

History

A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 28 July 2017. The Jinyi section of the Jinyidong line opened on 30 August 2022.

Lines

The initial phase of construction will see two sections of the Jinyidong line (Jinyi section and Yidong section) built, with a total length of 107 kilometres (66 mi) and 30 stations.

Jinyidong line

Jinyi section

The Jinyi section runs from Jinhua to Yiwu. It starts at the Jinhua railway station and heads east via Jinhua South railway station. It terminates at Qintang station. The Jinyi section opened on 30 August 2022. It is colored red on official system maps.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jinhua Rail Transit” as rail transit system in Jinhua City, Zhejiang, China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jinhua, Rail and Transit.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jinhua, Rail and Transit providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jinhua Rail Transit”, the useful work is to connect “rail transit system in Jinhua City, Zhejiang, China” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17028075. The first chronological checks are 2022 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jinhua Rail Transit” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.