Ride-hailing giant Didi remains a sticky habit for Beijing drivers and passengers as people await security review outcome

China’s cyberspace administration on Sunday removed Didi’s app from the country’s app stores until further notice. The news has come as something of a shock to the ride-hailing giant’s users, many of whom use the household name’s app to get around. — SCMP

For 36-year-old driver Ping, who depends on Didi Chuxing’s app to find clients, the ride-hailing giant is a company too big to fail.

“There are more than 20,000 Didi drivers in Beijing alone. If it collapses, traffic will come to a standstill. Anyway, who doesn’t use the app these days?” said Ping, who only gave his surname and said he became a Didi driver in the Chinese capital city a month ago after a business failure in Zhangjiakou, a town in northern Hebei province.