Shanghai to launch official taxi-booking app
May 26, 2015 Category Travel, Weekly
Shanghai will start an online car-hailing services platform soon, the first city in China to legalize car-hailing smartphone applications. To be launched on June 1, the officially backed service will be jointly operated by the traffic and transportation authorities, taxi companies and third-party car hailing service provider Didi Dache. The merged Didi Kuaidi holds a 78% share of Shanghai’s car-booking market, according to Analysys International. Market rival Uber, which has an 11% market share in China, is not included in the new platform. There were 172 million mobile app car-booking accounts in China last year. Analysts said Shanghai’s move to give third-party car-hailing apps official public backing may inspire other cities to follow suit, helping develop and grow the market.
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