[11] In August 2005, Jiangxi Provincial Development & Reform Commission and Nanchang City Government replied to the proposal of building a metro system, and the City Government considered listing the proposal in the Eleventh Five-year plan.

[13][14] In 2006, the City officially started the research of building a rail transit system.

[10] On 30 July 2008, the construction of Nanchang Metro was formally included in the priority agenda.

[18] On 15 September, the planned 5 routes were notified to the public,[4][19][20][21] which was approved by the State Council in July 2009.

[26] In July 2010, the National Development and Reform Commission approved the feasibility study report of the first phase of Nanchang Metro Line 1.

[39] Existing pre-payment smart cards such as local Hongcheng Tong (Chinese: 洪城通) are also expected to be used in Nanchang Metro.