China has realized the interconnection of traffic cards in 327 cities above the prefecture level (with the latest city list).

CTOnews.com, Oct. 15 (Xinhua) according to official data of the Transportation Union, up to now, 327 cities at or above the prefecture level (including 5 demonstration zones) have interconnected with each other.

CTOnews.com learned that the circulation of joint transportation cards (codes) has exceeded 223 million, including 104 million physical cards, 55.87 million virtual cards and 63.25 million QR code users, covering more than 36000 bus lines, 258 rail lines in 44 cities, and more than 36000 parade taxis.

At present, the scope of connectivity covers many key areas, such as Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, the Pearl River Delta, and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, basically forming an omni-directional pattern of interconnection between the north and the south and between the east and the west.

Passengers hold a traffic card with the sign of "traffic union", which can be used in the traffic card system of interconnected cities. Passengers' original non-"traffic union" cards can be refunded and replaced with "traffic union" cards according to local policy.

The following is a list of the national transport card interconnection cities officially announced by the Transport Union: