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Ministry of Communications: Let the special car obtain legal status through legislation.

[Abstract] The Minister of Communications said that it is necessary to give passengers a good experience if the online car ride is not prohibited.

The Fourth Session of the 12th National People's Congress held a press conference yesterday. Yang, Minister of Transportation, Liu Xiaoming, Director of Transportation Services Department, and Director of Beijing Transportation Development Research Center answered questions from Chinese and foreign journalists on "Deepening the Reform and Development of Taxi".

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Reform orientation promotes the publication of two documents as soon as possible

Talking about the Guiding Opinions on Deepening Reform to Further Promote the Healthy Development of Taxi Industry and the Interim Measures for the Administration of Online Booking Taxi Service, which were publicly solicited by the Ministry of Transport last year, Yang said that there are two main directions for taxi reform.

"One is to improve the service level of traditional taxis, and the other is to encourage the innovation and standardized development of new formats of online car rental." Yang said that the Ministry of Transport is working with relevant departments to further study and demonstrate, improve relevant policies, and promote the promulgation and implementation of the two documents as soon as possible.

The right to operate adheres to the principle of "freedom and limitation"

On the issue of taxi franchise, Liu Xiaoming said that it is necessary to regulate the total amount of taxi franchise and form a reasonable traffic structure through quantity control. "Our reform has a very clear direction, that is, the right to operate taxis should be free and limited." He said, "The purpose is to make the taxi service enter a virtuous circle and obtain the right to operate with quality service."

"As for whether to cancel the management right and completely liberalize the quantity, it depends on the situation of each city." He said that big cities should consider the road capacity and the development level of public transportation, and small and medium-sized cities can appropriately liberalize some quantity controls. "Each city conducts its own research and decision-making."

The fund management mode needs to be improved and optimized.

When answering the question about "money", Liu Xiaoming said that "money" is a management model that needs to be further improved and optimized. Liu Xiaoming said that many places have adopted different ways to optimize the management mode, some cities have adopted the employee system, and some places have adopted the consultation method explicitly put forward in the reform, and organized trade associations, enterprises, drivers and trade unions to hold consultations.

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How to supervise, tailor it to suit your own situation, or stop it?

In response to the question "whether strengthening the management of online car-hailing will make it impossible to develop", Yang said that countries all over the world have been arguing about how to supervise online car-hailing. Many developed countries have a complete ban on online car calling, and every state in the United States has explicitly banned it.

"When we formulated the Interim Measures, we did not ban it, but passed legislation to make the car legal." Yang said that by designing specific policies that are operable and executable, we will encourage the development of new formats and provide differentiated and diversified services to better meet the people's high-quality and multi-level travel needs.

Regarding the question of whether a private car belongs to a' black car', Yang said that from the existing laws and regulations, it is illegal for people and vehicles without operating licenses to provide passenger services.

"However, when dealing with new things, we must not stand still and stick to the rules. As a new thing, the network car has a good experience for passengers and needs to give this service a legal way out. " He said that if a private car wants to be converted into a network car, it can be converted into a compliant operating vehicle through certain procedures according to the current drafting method. We should design a new management system according to its characteristics to make it develop healthily.

The business license platform is one province and one certificate, which is popular all over the country.

Talking about the issue that the online car sharing platform should obtain a business license, Liu Xiaoming said that it is necessary to provide maximum convenience for online car sharing platform enterprises by reducing licensing links as much as possible, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that the online car sharing platform can meet the basic service needs of the public. "Enterprises, vehicles and drivers engaged in online car service should have certain conditions."

He said that the initial idea is to combine the service characteristics of Internet companies with the regional management characteristics of taxis and implement "two-level work and one-level license".

"The taxi service has realized the combination of online and offline. The online part is licensed by the provincial transportation department where the platform is located. This license is available all over the country, and no license is needed in other parts of the country. Offline physical services, services in Nanjing are licensed in Nanjing, and services in Hangzhou are licensed in Hangzhou. " He said that this model simplifies the working procedures and is conducive to the network car platform enterprises to operate services in a province and even the whole country.

Guangzhou traffic expert: the entry threshold for online car will not be lowered.

Information Times (Reporter Shi Qianyun) Yang, Minister of Transportation, said that in the future, the licensing procedures for online car rental will be optimized and the licensing links will be reduced as much as possible. Yesterday, Su Kui, a Guangzhou transportation expert who attended the expert seminar organized by the Ministry of Communications, told the reporter that the process of platform licensing is simplified, and the qualification requirements for platforms, vehicles and drivers will not change.

Enterprise: I hope not to follow the taxi management measures.

The reporter interviewed some social car companies yesterday, and many companies expressed their support for the contents released by the Ministry of Transport. The person in charge of Didi Travel told the reporter that Didi was pleased with the content of the press conference and thought that the move was "the government department heard and considered the voice of the enterprise". "We have noticed that the Ministry of Communications mentioned that the network car is a new thing. In particular, it is mentioned that private cars, as special cars, will not simply apply the management methods of cruise cars, and will be tailored when formulating new regulations for network cars. We also said before that we hope that the management department will not follow the past management methods of the traditional taxi industry to manage private cars, "said the person in charge. As for the detailed qualification regulations, Didi Chuxing said that considering the complexity of urban traffic, the situation varies from place to place. It is hoped that the relevant departments can encourage and allow all localities to adapt to local conditions in terms of vehicle nature, platform, personnel and vehicle management, give play to the flexibility of trying first, and conduct differentiated exploration and various beneficial attempts.

Expert: It just simplifies the process of platform authorization.

The reporter also interviewed Su Kui, a Guangzhou expert who attended the expert seminar of the Ministry of Transport last year. He told reporters that he also accepted the invitation of Xinhua News Agency for real-time expert comment yesterday. "The' simple administration and decentralization' mentioned in the meeting only refers to simplifying the setting of the licensing process, but the entry threshold requirements for platforms, vehicles and drivers have not changed." .

According to Su Kui, because the online car service provides services through the Internet, it has the characteristics of regardless of regions. Therefore, the Ministry of Transport proposes that the platform part of the network car service can be licensed by the provincial transportation authorities where the platform is located, that is, the road transport management agency, and other parts of the country no longer need to be licensed again; The vehicle and driver are still audited by the area. "For example, if Beijing has a legally qualified network car platform to operate in Guangzhou, then Guangzhou does not need to review its platform license qualification again. What simplifies the setting of this licensing procedure, but specifically, the entry threshold of all parties will not be lowered, or it will be the same as the previous opinion draft. " Su Kui said.

This edition is based on Xinhua News Agency (except signature)