An all-in-one card for taking public transport in Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province will be available to all lines in the region by the end of the year, according to Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport.

The card was put into operation in 2015 on an experimental basis on some lines.

With the number of lines increasing, more than 800,000 copies of the card had been issued to passengers in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region by September.

Passengers with the card can take all buses in downtown Beijing, certain lines in Tianjin and all lines in Hebei's Shijiazhuang, Cangzhou, Baoding, Handan, Zhangjiakou, Chengde and Langfang.

They also can enjoy the same preferential policies, such as a discount for taking buses in a certain city with the city's own transport card.

The all-in-one card also can be used in some other provinces, including East China's Jiangsu and Northeast China's Jilin.

The aim is to make public transport more convenient and efficient for passengers, and thus promote the integrated development of transportation in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the commission said.

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