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Still plenty of room for Uber and other taxi apps to grow in China, survey reveals
Majority of survey respondents say that that they've never used mobile taxi apps
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With American luxury taxi service Uber continuing its push into China, competing with a plethora of other options available to urbanites who like to arrange transportation through their mobile phones, how are Chinese consumers feeling about their services?
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A recent survey by Tencent Tech asked this question to more than 12,000 of its readers, revealing that while competition between rent-a-taxi apps might be stiff on the mainland, many Chinese haven't even used them.
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54 per cent of the survey respondents had never tried a high-end car rental app like Uber, and 45 per cent hadn’t tried any kind of mobile taxi app at all.
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Given that Tencent Tech’s readers are likely to be more tech-friendly and more urban than a random sample of China’s population, these results suggest that taxi and private car rental apps still have a long way to go in China before they become completely mainstream.
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