Shanghai Story(265): Stories of taxis (I)
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Shanghai Story(265): Stories of taxis (I)
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00:24:59
Date:
2016-4-23
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Keywords:
Professional posts | Shanghai taxi history | Taxi industry
Shanghai was one of the first cities in China to operate taxis. In 1908, foreign-owned taxis were available in Shanghai. In the 1930s, Chinese-founded Xiangsheng Taxi Company applied for 40000 as the telephone number. It was not until the mid-1980s that rental cars gradually replaced rental tricycles as the main body of taxis in Shanghai.