Car hailing app Didi aims to build global presence through cooperation

Didi's overseas strategy aims at constructing a global platform for cooperative partners. “Even if Uber wants to work with us, we will be happy to cooperate,” said Cheng Wei, CEO of Didi Taxi, at a sub forum themed on “Internet Innovation and Economic Development” during the 2nd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen.

Cheng believes that the future of Internet should not be grounded by the concept of region. Like entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley would set their overall arrangement globally from day one, international cooperation is an inevitable trend. While for Chinese Internet enterprises, transnational competition is still a very new subject with a lot of challenges.

For Didi, Cheng elaborates that globalization is to build a global platform through international cooperation, knocking through and connecting Internet of different regions. Regional product today are not able to meet the demand of shifting population in the world. So it has to be a global network to serve. Didi always cooperates with local cab hailing apps when it enters the market of a certain country, finding the local map and easy way of payment, combining the best enterprises of this industry together globally.

"Didi is very open and willing to work with companies of other countries as long as they are able to serve the best locally. Even if Uber wants to work together with us, we will be happy to cooperate," said Cheng Wei, "Last year, there are 100 million Chinese people traveling abroad, in the next year, these people will be able to hail a cab in foreign countries with Didi app; in the meantime, when customers from Southeast Asia, India, US coming to China, they will also be able to hail a taxi with the app they are using at home."