The ride-sharing app will complete more daily trips for passengers in China than in the United States, Liu Zhen, head of strategy for Uber China, said on Wednesday. 

 

Southern Chinese metropolis¹ Guangzhou currently completes the most number of trips daily among all cities in the world where Uber is available. Four other Chinese cities--Chengdu in the southwest, Hangzhou and Shanghai in the east and Shenzhen in the south--are also on Uber's top 10 cities worldwide. 

 

Uber has been expanding aggressively in China this year in a bid to challenge domestic ride-hailing app Didi. The company officially launched its ride-sharing service UberPool across five Chinese cities on Wednesday after a four-month-long trial. 

 

It has been seeking to cut into China's internet-based services where domestic firms dominate everything from online retail² and search to payments and taxi-hailing.X China's ride-hailing market has already seen intense competition among domestic players over taxi-hailing and ride-on-demand services since last year. Leading taxi-hailing apps Didi and Kuaidi merged³ earlier this year, ending a campaign that saw each scrambling⁴ for drivers and passengers with heavy subsidies⁵.

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