Like Uber, but for China: Beijing creates state-owned meta rideshare service

China's government has announced it's built its own rideshare and transport-as-a-service platform. News of the Qiangguo Jiaotong service – which translates as "strong nation's transportation" – was broken yesterday by Communist Party organ Beijing Daily in a story that indicated it was developed to combat "the disorderly …

[Kevin Johnston]

Data Security

So with this being China is the problem that the 'other' systems have no security or that it blocks everyone from scraping the data?

[codejunky]

Hmm

"the disorderly expansion"

Market expansion can be disorderly. It is the chaos that provides what people wants and allows the experimentation to progress by allowing others to fail.

[Gene Cash]

Re: Hmm

We have no markets. This is communism.

So I guess DiDi is basically screwed now.

[kat_bg]

Re: Hmm

DiDi will politely asked to be acquired by the state owned entity for the sake of the country :)

[tony72]

Crackdown

And just days ago, the headline was "Beijing official says crackdown on tech companies is over". Clearly that's somewhat selective, because it sure sounds like there's still a crackdown on ride-sharing tech companies.

[Pirate Dave]

"safe in the knowledge that data is handled by the government rather than private concerns."

This being China, that surely requires a stretch of the definition for the word "safe"...