Passengers exit the subway through gates of an automatic fare collection system at a subway station in Beijing June 9, 2008. With the use of the AFC system, paper tickets, which had been in use for 38 years, faded out from the subway system on Monday. [asianewsphoto]

Passengers exit the subway through gates of an automatic fare collection system at a subway station in Beijing June 9, 2008. With the use of the AFC system, paper tickets, which had been in use for 38 years, faded out from the subway system on Monday. [asianewsphoto]