time to hit the road new bike sharing programs like this and this are rolling out across the Chinese capital mobike is one of the latest favorites you reserve and find a bike scan the qr-code then the bike is yours and the charge only about 30 cents for an entire hour and that's not the best part it'll even have to find a hub it's really convenient and cheap you can park the bike almost anywhere for those who come back from work there will still be a distance between the subway station at home so using this convenient
service could be very helpful mobic says it received about two hundred thousand subscriptions during its first 100 days online with a similar business model oh-hoh is targeting the market on campus we have launched our services on more than 200 campuses in 20 cities across the nation this September and again we have tens of thousands of orders a day I believe the user base would generate handsome profits soon both startups have recently received financing worth tens or hundreds of millions of dollars making headlines well there was a time China was known as the kingdom of bicycles
in 1980 more than 60% of commuters in Beijing rode bikes however with the rapid urban development and increase of course that number has dropped to less than 12 percent in 2014 and traffic authorities are trying to get those numbers back Beijing has been pushing a public bike system with more than 1,700 hubs and 50 thousand bikes putting to use by the end of last year but surveys show when a 60% of users think the system is not ideal with many health problems such as finding a hub obtaining a user card and even getting a useable
bike back sharing companies think they can fill the gap mobike could play a complimentary road to the government initiative public bicycles we are trying to use business power to solve people's transport problems for the last mile of their trip experts are upbeat about the prospects uh woman changsu GOG Hansa for its further development there needs to be more bike lanes and public awareness of protecting public facilities also needs to be improved in the future it's possible that the government funded system could combine with the private funded platforms we can also think further maybe the government
could buy services from platforms like mobike endo pho or even hand the entire sector over to private companies just last month beijing publish new proposals which set out to construct a 3200 kilometer network of bike lanes by 2020 no matter how the system evolves pedal power could give a city move into a future that's much cleaner and less crowded jaja CCTV Beijing
