Vice president of Millet Hugo Balachento Uber taxi first passenger

Early this morning, Uber's first passenger in Beijing, the vice president of Millet, Hugo Barra, said on Twitter that he was in Beijing and rode Uber. In other words, prior to entering Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, called the car service Uber, has begun to test operations in Beijing. At the same time, Uber officials say Beijing is also just the 100th city to Uber in the process of global expansion. According to Pingwest, Uber's operations in Beijing will be based on the previous approach in Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen--and with car rental companies to provide drivers and vehicles to receive Uber training and certification. Uber in the official blog, the current iOS users can download Uber in the App Store, through the binding credit card information or Alipay account to pay, Android users can click here. On the other hand, Uber said that during the trial operation, the vehicle will be concentrated in Beijing's CBD, three Li Tun area-for claiming to be a combination of lifestyle and logistics, Starbucks as the coordinates of the Uber, they want to catch is the CBD office of those young white-collar users. Uber officials called Beijing's trial operations a secret landing, and Uber was in the early stages of localization in Beijing, compared with the launch of a conference in Shanghai in February, to familiarize users with the product. In a taxi this market, has been in Beijing to subsidize the taxi driver drop a taxi recently connected to the public comment on the service, and it is possible to collaborate with Tencent's other businesses; the Uber model is closer to the car recently announced in public activities currently has more than 50,000 vehicles, active users over 2 million, and Ctrip , where to go and other web cooperation.