China T-union

Contactless transport card used in China
  • Bus, metro, ferries in 336 Chinese cities[1]
Retailed
  • Railway and metro stations
T-union card reader on a Dalian bus.

China T-Union (交通联合 (Chinese)), also known as TU (交联 (Chinese)), is a contactless transport card used in China. Holder of the card can use it to pay public transport fares in any covered service in China.

The Ministry of Transport approved development of the card and pilot projects in 2012.[2] In 2015 the card was launched in Zhenjiang. In 2016, 110 cities supported the card and the following year this number was raised to 165. By 2023, 327 cities in China supported the card.

The design of the card varies by issuing region and TU itself does not issue any cards.

In 2018, the Hungarian government invited CTTIC to discuss potential implementation of the system in Hungarian public transport.[3]

Transport services covered

As of December 2023, the card can be used in 336 cities in China as following:[4]

Beijing All Beijing bus (Excluding customized buses), subway and suburban railway lines
Tianjin All Tianjin bus and metro lines
Hebei All bus and metro lines in Shijiazhuang

All bus routes in Chengde, Zhangjiakou, Qinhuangdao, Tangshan, Langfang, Baoding, Cangzhou, Hengshui, Xingtai and Handan

Shanxi All bus and metro lines in Taiyuan

All bus routes in Datong, Yangquan, Changzhi, Jincheng, Shuozhou, Jinzhong, Xinzhou, Linfen, Yuncheng and Lüliang

Inner Mongolia All bus and metro lines in Hohhot

All bus routes in Baotou, Wuhai, Ordos

Liaoning All bus and metro lines in Shenyang and Dalian

All bus routes in Yingkou, Jinzhou, Chaoyang, Anshan, Panjin, Tieling, Huludao, Liaoyang, Dandong and Fuxin

Jilin All bus and metro lines in Changchun

All bus routes in Jilin, Siping, Liaoyuan, Tonghua, Baishan, Songyuan, Baicheng, Yanbian, Changbaishan

Rural bus of the province

Heilongjiang All bus, metro and ferry lines in Harbin

All bus routes in Qiqihar, Qitaihe, Yichun and Daxing'anling region

Shanghai All bus, metro and ferry lines in Shanghai
Jiangsu All bus, metro and ferry lines in Nanjing

All bus and metro lines in Suzhou, Wuxi, Changzhou, Nantong and Xuzhou

All buses in Lianyungang, Huai'an, Yancheng, Yangzhou, Zhenjiang, Taizhou, Suqian

Rural bus of the province

Zhejiang All bus, metro and Water Bus lines in Hangzhou

All bus and metro lines in Ningbo, Shaoxing, Taizhou, Wenzhou

All bus routes in Huzhou, Jiaxing, Xuzhou and Jinhua

Anhui Bus and metro lines in Hefei

All bus routes in Huaibei, Bengbu, Huainan, Chuzhou, Lu'an, Maanshan, Fuyang, Wuhu, Suzhou, Tongling, Anqing, Huangshan, Chizhou, Bozhou, Xuancheng

Fujian All bus and metro lines in Fuzhou

All bus, metro and ferry lines in Xiaman

All bus and ferry lines in Putian

All bus lines in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, Sanming, Nanping, Longyan, Ningde and Pingtan

Jiangxi All bus and metro lines in Nanchang

All bus lines in Ganzhou, Ji'an, Jiujiang, Jingdezhen, Pingxiang, Xinyu, Yingtan, Yichun, Shangrao and Fuzhou

Shandong All bus and subway lines in Ji'nan and Qingdao

All bus lines in Yantai, Ji'ning, Weihai, Linyi, Dezhou, Binzhou, Heze, Zaozhuang, Liaocheng, Weifang and Dongying

Henan All bus and metro lines in Zhengzhou and Luoyang

All bus and Water Bus lines in Xuchang

All bus routes in Pingdingshan, Anyang, Xinxiang, Jiaozuo, Shangqiu, Xinyang, Zhumadian, Puyang, Kaifeng, Nanyang, Luohe, Sanmenxia, Hebi, Zhoukou and Jiyuan

Hubei All bus and ferry lines in Wuhan

All bus routes in Xianning, Huangshi, Qianjiang, Jingmen, Suizhou, Ezhou, Yichang, Xiangyang, Huanggang, Shiyan and Shennongjia

Hunan All bus and metro lines in Changsha

All bus routes in Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Hengyang, Shaoyang, Yueyang, Changde

Guangdong All bus and metro lines in Guangzhou, Dongguan, Foshan and Shenzhen; all bus routes in Maoming, Zhaoqing, Huizhou, Shanwei, Zhongshan, Chaozhou and Yunfu
Guangxi All bus and metro lines in Nanning

All bus routes in Liuzhou, Qinzhou, Baise, Hezhou, Laibin, Guilin, Beihai, Fangchenggang, Guigang, Yulin, Congzuo, Wuzhou and Hechi

Hainan Some bus routes in Haikou, Sanya, Wenchang and Zhangzhou
Chongqing All metro and almost all bus lines in Chongqing
Sichuan All bus and metro lines in Chengdu

All bus lines in Cangzhou, Neijiang, Mianyang, Suining, Leshan, Nanchong, Zigong, Panzhihua, Yibin, Meishan, Deyang, Guang'an, Dazhou, Bazhong, Ya'an, Guangyuan, Liangshan Prefecture (Xichang), Ganzi Prefecture (Kangding)[citation needed]

Guizhou All bus and metro lines in Guiyang

All bus lines in Qiannan (Duyun), Zunyi, Liupanshui, Tongren, Southeastern Guizhou (Kaili) and Southwest Guizhou (Xingyi)

Yunnan All bus and metro lines in Kunming

All bus lines in Chuxiong, Yuxi, Baoshan and Wenshan

Tibet All bus lines in Lhasa
Shaanxi All bus and metro lines in Xi'an; all bus lines in Baoji, Xianyang, Tongchuan, Weinan, Yan'an, Hanzhong, Ankang and Shangluo
Gansu Province All bus and metro lines in Lanzhou[5][1]

All bus lines in Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Pingliang and Jinchang

Qinghai All bus lines in Xining, Haidong, Haixi and Yushu
Ningxia All bus lines in Yinchuan, Guyuan and Wuzhong
Xinjiang All bus and metro lines in Urumqi
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Corps bus lines

In addition, from 26 March 2024 onwards, Octopus card in Hong Kong also launched T-Union card version.

External links

  • Available regions of China T-union cards - iPublicTransport

References

  1. ^ a b 唐俊TJ (21 June 2019). "西北第三座地铁城市!兰州地铁1号线将于23日开通". finance.sina.com.cn.
  2. ^ "国务院关于城市优先发展公共交通的指导意见". www.gov.cn.
  3. ^ "交通通信信息中心赴匈牙利 磋商交通一卡通合作_交通一卡通要闻_北京中交金卡科技有限公司". www.cttic.cn.
  4. ^ 北京中交金卡科技有限公司(全国交通一卡通互联互通数据交换中心) (2023-12-20). "【官方发布】已实现336个地级以上城市交通一卡通互联互通" (in Simplified Chinese). Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  5. ^ "乘公交坐地铁,兰州"交通联合"学生卡、优惠卡、免..._媒体_澎湃新闻-The Paper".
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