Nanjing no longer has the fifth longest metro network in China. That honour now goes to Hangzhou, but the irony of it is, we made the trains that enabled the city to steal our title. And providing for our shame is the 2022 Asian Games.
10 June was the date of our humiliation, as the Zhejiang provincial capital opened not one, but two extensions to its Metro Line 3.
6月10日是我们受辱的日子，浙江省会地铁3号线开通的不是一条，而是两条。
The first of these was the main extension to Line 3 from the previous terminus at Chaowang Lu, adding 18 more stations to the route and taking it to Wenyi Xi Lu in the west of Hangzhou.
第一个是从原潮王路总站向3号线的主要延伸，增加18个车站，并通往杭州西部的文一西路。
The other was also a western extension to Line 3, a branch off the main line, from South Xixi Wetland to Shima in the southwest.
另一条也是3号线的西延，是主线的支线，从南西溪湿地到西南的石马。
All in, the two extensions added another 30.2 kilometres to the Hangzhou Metro network, reported Railway Gazette. This brings the entire system length to 450 kilometres. Nanjing’s stands at 427 kilometres.
据铁路公报报道，这两条延长线总共使杭州地铁网络又增加了 30.2 公里。这使得整个系统长度达到 450 公里。南京全长427公里。
And the reason for our embarrassment is the fact that trains for the new extension were built in our very own city, by CRRC Nanjing Puzhen in Pukou District.
而让我们尴尬的原因是，新扩建的列车是在我们自己的城市，由位于浦口区的中车南京浦镇公司建造的。
But it’s all for a good cause; the 2022 Asian Games. Originally scheduled for 10 to 25 September, the decision to postpone on account of the COVID situation in China was taken last month, on 6 May.
但这都是为了一个好的理由； 2022 年亚运会。原定于 9 月 10 日至 25 日举行，但由于中国的新冠疫情，上个月（5 月 6 日）决定推迟。
Inside the Games has reported that as of Saturday 18 June, no new dates for the 2022 Asian Games have been confirmed as yet.
Inside the Games 报道称，截至 6 月 18 日星期六，2022 年亚运会的新日期尚未确定。
By then though, an additional section of Line 3 will also be operational, from Wenyi Xi Lu to Wushanqiancun, to take spectators to the Games, whenever they are finally held.
届时，3号线从文一西路至巫山前村的额外路段也将投入运营，以便在奥运会最终举行时将观众带到现场。
But is all hope lost? Will the northern extension to Nanjing’s Metro Line 1 expected to open before the year is out restore our rightful place and gain back a little of the lost face? It won’t be anywhere near long enough, so, no.
但一切希望都破灭了吗？年底通车的南京地铁一号线北延线能否恢复我们的应有地位，挽回一点面子呢？它不会足够长，所以，不。
