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Taxi firm rolls out online car service

By Ding Yining and Zhang Ningning | April 27, 2016, Wednesday | Print Edition

DIDI, China’s largest ride-hailing application, yesterday said it has joined forces with local firm Haibo Taxi to roll out a chauffeur service.

About 500 licensed cabs will be available to provide services to Didi passengers from the end of this month, and drivers will be restricted to picking up passengers who have ordered online.

Haibo Taxi general manager Zhou Yong said the company may include high-end vehicles in its existing fleet of Passat cars, but the price will remain the same.

“Drivers can apply for the positions using their own cars, as long as the car is new and the car type meets our requirements,” Zhou said.

Those who have secured a license plate for online car-hailing from Haibo pay the company’s monthly management fees, and Didi receives a commission on each ride ordered through its platform.

The figure is much lower than the monthly rental fee paid by regular taxi drivers, but both parties refused to name a specific amount.

According to the company, it plans to transfer more of its taxis to the online car-hailing sector to meet fast-growing demand.

Haibo has more than 8,000 taxis running in the city, and about 300 in Nanjing and Changzhou in Jiangsu Province, Qingdao in Shandong Province and Nanning in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

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