After the establishment of newly-built republic of China, the public transportation systems in Beijing have already gone through the following period and stage, and it was the recovering period and hardworking and entrepreneurship stage of the public transportation systems in Beijing from the liberation of Beiping to 10th, 1956.
When the people’s liberation army navy entered into Beijing at the end of January in 1949, there were totally 103 vehicle tramcars in Beijing, and the running routes of them were 7. In the meantime, the total number of these public buses in Beijing was 61 vehicles, and the running routes of them was 4, and the carrying capacity of these electric public buses yearly in Beijing was increased to 2,885 million. At the end of 1956, the total running routes of these electric public buses and public buses in Beijing were increased to 27, which was 5.9 times larger than that of 1949. Besides, the total length of the running routes was 357 kilometers, which was around 10 times longer than that of 1949, and then the carrying capacity of them was 23,540 million people one year, which was 205 times larger than that of 1949.
Moreover, the public transportation systems of Beijing have already entered into the total development stage from the successful running of the first tramcar in Beijing in 1956 to the stopping of the running routes of the last tramcar in 6th, May, 1966. Also, the total running routes of these public buses in Beijing have already been increased from previous 27 to 65 from 1956 to the end of 1966, and they have already been increased for 2.4 times, and the total number of the running public buses in Beijing was also developed to 1,125 vehicles, and it have already been increased for 1.6 times, and the carrying capacity of these public buses in Beijing has reached to 5.1 million people, and it has already been increased for 1.2 times.
In order to adapt to the new circumstance of structure development of public transportation systems and comprehensive public transportation systems in Beijing, public transportation bureau of Beijing has already changed its original name into the public transportation total company in August,1980. After that, the public transportation systems in Beijing have already been well developed and also established professional carrying fields and professional insurance and repairing fields in 1989, which made the carrying and operating as well as the insurance and repairing of these public electric buses in Beijing lead the specialized and professional as well as regional management roads.
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