China News Service, Beijing, October 16th, title: Dialogue with entrepreneurs: Cheng Wei, Chairman of Didi Chuxing: New economic platforms can absorb more flexible employment
China News Agency reporter Chen Xiaoyuan
During the November holiday of this year, Cheng Wei, the chairman and CEO of Didi Chuxing, met an online ride-hailing driver in a county in Zhejiang. He was an employee of a pharmaceutical factory and had a monthly salary of less than 2,000 yuan (RMB, the same below).
However, you can earn another 5,000 yuan per month by driving online car-hailing part-time.
On October 14, Cheng Wei, Chairman and CEO of Didi Chuxing, said in an interview with China News Agency and other media in Beijing that the new economic platform can provide more flexible employment and play its role as a “reservoir” and “stabilizer” for employment.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
"The barriers to becoming an online ride-hailing driver are lower than those for white-collar workers, and the working hours are flexible. Some people can find other jobs while working as part-time drivers. Even as a'transitional employment', the Didi platform can help them." Said the leader of the largest one-stop travel service platform.
This year the new crown pneumonia epidemic has impacted many industries, and stabilizing employment has become one of the important issues facing China.
Cheng Wei said in an interview with China News Agency and other media in Beijing recently that the new economic platform can provide more flexible employment and play its role as a "reservoir" and "stabilizer" for employment.
Statistics show that Didi has become one of the world's largest flexible employment platforms.
In 2019, the platform created a total of 13.6 million flexible jobs in China, including direct employment of online car-hailing drivers, agent driving, bicycle operation and maintenance personnel, and indirect employment of automobile production, sales, and maintenance in the upstream and downstream industrial chains.
On October 14, Cheng Wei, Chairman and CEO of Didi Chuxing, said in an interview with China News Agency and other media in Beijing that the new economic platform can provide more flexible employment and play its role as a “reservoir” and “stabilizer” for employment.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
After the outbreak of the epidemic this year, Didi actively supported the fight against the epidemic by forming a community support fleet and a medical care support fleet.
At the same time, a number of employment stabilization and employment promotion measures have also been introduced.
Earlier this year, Didi signed an employment cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Veterans Affairs, planning to provide at least 15,000 job opportunities for veterans; in August, it invested 200 million yuan in special funds to launch the "Orange Promoting Employment" program; in September, it took the lead 16 companies jointly launched the "New Economy and New Employment Promotion Alliance" to help more workers earn income through the digital economy platform.
Cheng Wei introduced that as of the end of September, Didi had hired 18,400 retired military personnel this year.
Since the outbreak, more than 1.5 million registered drivers have been added to the Didi platform.
When the epidemic was severe this year, people's travel decreased, and many drivers' incomes dropped, and they even had no income for a while.
The Didi platform has helped contract drivers to tide over difficulties by advocating rent reduction or exemption.
The platform's travel business in July has returned to the level of the same period last year, and currently serves more than 50 million users every day.
Didi Chuxing has learned profound lessons on safety issues.
Nowadays, while stabilizing employment and promoting employment, it also pays more attention to the protection of the rights and interests of employees and related consumers.
Cheng Wei said that safety conferences will be held every week at work.
To ensure the safety of drivers and passengers more effectively and improve service quality are the goals pursued by the company.
According to reports, through the installation of in-vehicle cameras and other measures, as of September, the number of traffic accidents on Didi platform cooperation vehicles this year has decreased by 39% compared with the same period last year.
Since its establishment, Didi has accumulated more than 31 million drivers and car owners who have earned income on the platform. The platform has invested more than 6 billion yuan to build an offline driver service team of more than 2,000 people, using big data, artificial intelligence and other technologies. Develop and launch a series of driver rights protection technologies and products.
On October 14, Cheng Wei, Chairman and CEO of Didi Chuxing, said in an interview with China News Agency and other media in Beijing that the new economic platform can provide more flexible employment and play its role as a “reservoir” and “stabilizer” for employment.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
Cheng Wei said that in addition to the huge Chinese market, the company's rapid development over the past 8 years has also benefited from the country's tolerance and prudence towards new business formats and the overall idea of encouraging innovation.
"As the first country to legalize online ride-hailing, China has a good soil for development in many new business formats."
How to integrate the development of taxis and online car-hailing in the future, and how to balance the new business format with the traditional business format, are issues that Cheng Wei has been thinking about in recent years.
Looking to the future, he believes that online, electrification, sharing and intelligence are the major trends in the sustainable development of transportation, and he hopes to promote the popularization of related models.
Didi has now entered 10 overseas markets.
Cheng Wei said that although some countries have a trend of anti-globalization, this is only a phased "small wave". Globalization is still a major trend, and the company will firmly invest in international development.
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