The new policy on online car-hailing will be introduced next month, and online car-hailing needs to become a commercial vehicle

　　The new policy of online car-hailing has been coming out for a long time. The reporter learned from authoritative sources that the "Interim Measures for the Management of Online Booking Taxi Business Services" will be issued at the earliest in early May and at the latest by the end of May. Industry insiders said that the new policy places restrictions on private cars to do online car-hailing, and private car platforms such as Didi, Uber, and Yidao may encounter strong restrictions.

　　The frequent occurrence of malicious safety incidents on some online car-hailing platforms, such as drivers maliciously harassing passengers, has put the introduction of the new policy on special cars on the agenda. Recently, Shenzhen’s transportation, public security, traffic police, market supervision, network supervision and other departments interviewed Didi, Uber, Yidao, Xingxing, Shenzhou and other online car-hailing platforms, and for the first time disclosed several major problems in the management of online car-hailing platforms. These problems mainly focus on the widespread problem of lax checks on driver recruitment on online car-hailing platforms, and the safety of citizens cannot be effectively guaranteed. There are many traffic violations and traffic accidents on online car-hailing platforms. Passenger complaints cannot be dealt with in a timely and effective manner. Taxi drivers and enterprises strongly reflect that online car-hailing platforms use subsidies, low prices and other promotional means to hinder fair competition.

　　In terms of lax checks on private cars, the investigation data of the Shenzhen public security department shows that 1,425 drug addicts, 1 mental patient who caused an accident, and 1,661 criminal convicts were found in the Shenzhen online car-hailing driver group. In December 2015, the public security department cracked a case of illegal gun trading by two online car-hailing drivers on a certain platform. Some drug drivers who had their driver’s licenses revoked still used their cancelled driver’s licenses to re-register as online car-hailing drivers.

　　The "Administrative Measures" put forward specific requirements for online car-hailing platforms, vehicles, and drivers. Online car-hailing platforms need to be registered in a certain place and need to obtain a "Road Transport Business License"; online car-hailing vehicles need to be registered as rental passenger transportation and need to obtain a "Road Transport Certificate" for booking a taxi; drivers need to obtain a "Road Transport Practitioner Qualification Certificate".

　　According to industry insiders, the most significant impact of the "Administrative Measures" on the industry is that "the nature of the use of online car-hailing vehicles is registered as taxi passenger transportation". Since the vast majority of online car-hailing vehicles are currently composed of private cars, after the introduction of the "Administrative Measures", if private cars want to participate in online car-hailing operations, they will have to change the nature of the vehicle. Once they become operating vehicles, the scrapping period of private cars will become eight years or less, which will make many private cars back, which will have a seismic impact on the current online car-hailing market pattern.

　　At present, there are two models in the market, one is the C2C model represented by Didi, Uber, and Yidao, where vehicles are basically joined by private cars; the other is the B2C model represented by Shenzhou special car and Shouqi car-hailing, where vehicles come from professional rental companies. Private cars joining the online car-hailing platform are basically small and micro motor vehicles. Regarding the service life of such motor vehicles, the "Standard Regulations on Compulsory Scrap of Motor Vehicles" implemented in 2013 pointed out that there is no service life limit for small and micro non-operating passenger vehicles; small and micro-rental passenger vehicles are used for 8 years, and other small and micro-operating passenger vehicles are used for 10 years; for small and micro-rental passenger vehicles (except pure electric vehicles), the relevant departments of the people’s governments of provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government may formulate strict regulations on the above-mentioned service life in light of local actual conditions, but small and micro-rental passenger vehicles shall not be less than 6 years.