Author | City Jie Wang Chunxiao
Editor | Lang Ming
According to the Ministry of Transport, on February 27, the Office of the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Collaborative Supervision of New Transport Businesses conducted a telephone interview with Dida Company.
The interview requested that Dida Company must obey the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control, fulfill its main corporate responsibilities, comprehensively suspend cross-city online ride-hailing and ride-hailing services in and out of Beijing, and resolutely implement relevant arrangements for epidemic prevention and control in the capital. At the same time, the second is to strengthen publicity and training for drivers, continue to strengthen epidemic prevention and control measures, and resolutely prevent the spread of the epidemic through transportation.
The main person in charge of Dida Company said that it has suspended cross-city related business in and out of Beijing, and will actively cooperate with government departments at all levels to serve the overall situation of epidemic prevention and control, actively fulfill social responsibilities, and make every effort to implement epidemic prevention and control work in Beijing and other places. Require.
At the same time, the Office of the Inter-Ministerial Joint Conference on the Collaborative Supervision of New Transportation Businesses also issued regulations on Didi Chuxing, Shouqi Ride-hailing, Caocao Travel, Meituan Taxi, China Private Car, Amap , Platform companies such as Hello have issued relevant reminders.
27, according to the Beijing News, Dida Travel has successively resumed taxi and ride-hailing services in Chengdu, Chongqing, Kunming, Hefei, Shijiazhuang, Yiwu, Tongling, Kaifeng and Taizhou; partially restored Xi'an and Bengbu Taxi or ride-hailing business in .
Previously on January 13, the Ministry of Transport, the Central Cyberspace Administration, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, and the relevant departments and bureaus of the Ministry of Public Security held interviews with Dida Travel and Didi in the name of the Office of the Inter-ministerial Joint Conference on Collaborative Supervision of New Transportation Business Forms. When traveling, it is required not to engage in illegal operations in the name of free rides and to exceed the industry's safety bottom line.
Tianyancha data shows that the operating entity of Dida Travel is Beijing Changxing Information Technology Co., Ltd. , which was established in August 2014 with a registered capital of 10 million yuan and the legal representative is Song Zhongjie. The business scope includes technical services, car rental (excluding passenger cars with more than nine seats); sales of cars (excluding passenger cars with less than nine seats) and auto parts; Internet information services; and online taxi booking operations.
Dida Travel’s official website shows that at present, Dida’s ride-hailing business has covered 359 cities, with more than 130 million users and 15 million car owners.
So far, Dida Chuxing has completed four rounds of financing, obtaining a total of US$130 million in financing from IDG Capital, Bitauto.com, , Chongde Investment, and NIO Capital. The most recent round was completed in March 2017, led by NIO. Capital investment, transaction amount was undisclosed.
html On January 16, according to Jiemian News, insiders close to Dida revealed that in August last year, Dida began to seek the final round of financing before its IPO, with capital requirements of US$300 million. At that time, it was calculated based on a pre-investment valuation of US$1 billion, and the listing location was in the United States. However, the specific time for its listing has not yet been fully determined.The insider also mentioned that after completing this round of financing, Dida hopes to have a market value of US$3 billion when it goes public. At the same time, he also revealed that this financing is mainly to increase the order volume, and the goal in 2020 is to double the order volume to 2 million orders.
However, Dida Chuxing responded that it would not comment on this information and had no relevant information to disclose.
In September 2019, on the fifth anniversary of Dida Travel, Song Zhongjie publicly stated that the company had achieved overall profitability. Bloomberg reported that Dida Travel’s annual revenue in 2018 was 151 million yuan, which is expected to increase to 643 million yuan in 2019, including a profit of 29 million yuan in the second quarter of 2019.
