THE city is planning to control the number of shared bikes through registration and issuing electronic labels, according to a notice on the bill for regulating shared bikes issued last week by the Shenzhen Municipal Transport Commission to seek public suggestions and opinions.

Residents are advised to give their suggestions to the commission by Thursday. The commission will then hand in the bill to city government for review and to the Standing Committee of Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress for approval.

The bill is set to solve illegal and random parking issues and the oversupply of shared bikes on Shenzhen streets.

An online survey conducted by the commission showed 83.7 percent respondents thought that shared bikes had a negative impact on public order and the urban environment, and 78.6 percent of the respondents hoped the government would control the amount of shared bikes on streets.

At two meetings June 13 and 15, separately with residents and bike operators, residents suggested imposing strict conditions on operators for entering the Shenzhen market and tightening management standards over bike operators. Bike operators hoped authorities would use big data to assess the capacity of the city for shared bikes and establish fair mechanisms for dividing quotas between operators.

At present, there are five operators — Mobike, ofo, u-bike, Jiujiu and Yibu — putting 760,000 bikes in the city. The number of registered users in the city reached 21 million and the maximum daily usage reached 5.47 million.

As for other cities, Beijing has required its districts to control the amount of shared bikes according to its actual capacity, while Shanghai has required operators to register according to rules to get the license plates for nonvehicles. The operators must link their bike information to city’s information service platform.

Nanjing limits the number of shared bikes to 450,000 and requires operators to register with public security and transport authorities.

Xiamen limits shared bikes to 150,000 in 2018 and ranks the operators by evaluating their performances. (Han Ximin)