Han Ximin

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    DIDI Chuxing, the world’s largest mobile-based transportation platform, will actively explore new business models in its internationalization strategy to bring homegrown innovation to new markets in 2017, according to a company statement released last week.

    Other priorities in the new year include safety and a better user experience, working with urban transportation authorities to promote smart transportation management, and investment in automotive asset management and operation.

    It will use big data capabilities to empower urban transportation management and planning through cooperation with urban transportation authorities and assist them in urban transportation management and planning by leveraging its big data analytics capabilities.

    To these ends, Didi upgraded its organizational structure, centering on two Business Groups (the Express Mobility Group and the Quality Mobility Group) and one Smart Transportation Feature Team, working in collaboration with multiple specialized divisions to maximize synergy and efficiency.

    It will unveil the new International Business Division, a new Vehicle Assets Management Center, and the upgraded Safety Management Division.

    Didi invested in 99, Brazil’s largest local rideshare company last month. The company has invested in several other overseas firms including Grab, Lyft and Ola.