TIANJIN, March 21 (Xinhua) -- The booming bike-sharing industry has had a polarizing effect on Chinese bicycle manufacturers, with big companies going full steam to churn out millions of bikes every month, and smaller firms dying due to a lack of orders.
At factories of Flying Pigeon, a bike maker in Tianjin Municipality, production lines are going full throttle.
"The company started to hire more workers at the end of last year. We have added at least 100 workers and are hiring more," said Zhang Jinying, Flying Pigeon's general manager. The company is a supplier for Ofo, one of the biggest bike-sharing services, whose two-wheelers are commonly known as "the yellow bikes" among Chinese city dwellers.
There are 29 different bike-sharing providers in China. Riders spend as little as 1 yuan (about 0.15 U.S. dollar) per hour after unlocking bicycles with a mobile app, and they can drop them off anywhere for the next user. Mobike, Bluegogo and Ofo are among the major competitors.
Flying Pigeon is scheduled to produce 900,000 bikes in March, with half of the orders from bike-sharing start-ups, Zhang said.
"There have been so many more orders since January this year. Many of us have to work overtime," said an employee who gave his name as Chen.
Fushida, another supplier for Ofo, is also busy dealing with spiking orders.
"Ofo ordered about 800,000 bikes for April. In total, we plan to make a million bikes in April," said Liu Jie, general manager of Fushida.
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