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...Operation Red Sea featured a Type 054A frigate and a Type 071 amphibious transport dock, while Sky Hunter included aerial manoeuvres by the J-20 stealth fighter and a Y-20 military transport....
...Didi carries 20m passengers a day, or about 7bn a year, as it taps into a pressing need for transport in China’s crowded cities....
...Didi carries 20m rides a day, or about 7bn a year, as it taps into the need for transport around China’s crowded cities....
...So far the transport bureau in Beijing has refused to budge. It has said the new rules are intended to target what it calls “urban diseases”....
California permit granted for Chinese tech company to compete with Google and others
App accused of misrepresenting itself as IT platform rather than car-hailing business
End to discounts nearly doubles cost of rides in Beijing
...Both Uber and Didi Chuxing welcomed the provisional rules unveiled by the Ministry of Transport on Thursday, which Didi referred to as “the world’s first nationwide online ride-booking regulations.”...
The president of Didi Chuxing saw her strategy pay off this week as Uber admitted defeat in China
Yahoo co-founder named a senior adviser for China’s top car-hailing company
...The outcry has forced the transport ministry into a public response....
...Sun Jianping, head of Shanghai’s Municipal Transport Commission, told a press conference that the city welcomes all qualified companies....
...Car-hailing apps are a legal grey area in China as transport laws have lagged behind technological advances....
Rival apps lavish huge sums on drivers and passengers
Chinese car-hailing app builds $3.5bn war chest to keep Uber at bay
...Additional reporting by Henny Sender and Charles Clover....
...Guangzhou’s municipal government is planning to launch its own Uber-like online taxi hire service, only weeks after police closed the San Francisco-based transport app’s office in the southern Chinese city...
...It has partnered with small business platforms such as Shopify, an ecommerce marketplace, and Clover, a point of sales system, to link in UberRush delivery services....
...The most recent statement from China’s ministry of transport in April said that private car services “can meet market demands for high quality and diverse methods of transport”....
...The ministry of transport said last week that private car services “can meet market demands for high quality and diverse methods of transport”....
...Jack Ma Catapulted into the ranks of the global super rich by the listing of his ecommerce company Alibaba, Jack Ma has always been something of an enigma in his native China, writes Charles Clover....
...The transport ministry did not specify any service providers it was targeting, but four companies offer premium private car booking services in China....
...are facing a new year crackdown against “illegal” taxi drivers in Beijing, making the city the latest in a long line of trouble spots for the San Francisco-based start-up that has sought to disrupt city transport...
...Observers were left scratching their heads when the transport ministry announced new rules in January banning private cars from using car-hailing apps, which looked like bad news for this nascent industry...
...They are also rapidly branching out into offline sectors, such as transport, travel, retail and banking....
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