Chinese authorities summon online cargo services firm, warn against operational irregularities

BEIJING, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- China's transport authorities recently summoned on-demand delivery services provider Lalamove for talks over operational irregularities, and issued a warning to other industry players in an effort to safeguard the sector's sound development.

Lalamove, known as Huolala in Chinese, was summoned by the office of the inter-ministerial joint meeting on the coordinated supervision of new forms of transportation, according to sources at the Ministry of Transport.