By Josh Ye
HONG KONG, March 16 (Reuters) – Chinese passenger transport company DiDi Global plans to expand its services and offer more subsidies to users and drivers, it said on Thursday, in a bid to boost its activities in China following the completion of an investigation. regulatory.
The company will work with industry partners to offer more services and cover more cities, it said in a statement on Thursday citing a speech at an event in the coastal city of Fuzhou.
“Currently, travel and consumption are recovering rapidly across China. The number of Internet transportation service orders continues to rise,” the statement said.
The Chinese company had been the target of Beijing’s sweeping crackdown on the tech sector, which began in 2021 and has eased in recent months. Chinese regulators banned DiDi from attracting new users and its “app” was removed from app stores from mid-2021 until this January.
The passenger transport company, launched in Beijing in 2012 and backed by high-profile investors including Alibaba, Tencent and SoftBank Group, clashed with regulators from China’s powerful Cyberspace Administration when it proceeded in 2021 to a public listing in the United States. the wishes of the regulator, sources told Reuters.
In January, DiDi said in a statement that it had received the green light from national regulators to resume registering new users for its main transport app. (Reporting by Ye Josh and Brenda Goh; Editing in Spanish by Tomás Cobos)