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09/05/2022
The strength of the collaborative economy in China
Everything started with the guided vehicles, with e-homes and bicycles. Now, in big cities, umbrellas and outside batteries are also shared.
Umbrellas. It is one of the last of the collaborative economic services. Its operation is very easy: the user downloads Mosun Appa, paying a deposit of 39 yuan (5 euros) through the payment online of Alipay or Tenpay, and can take an umbrella in one of the thousands of umbrellas set up throughout Shanghai. There are 49 units in each one and we are also prepared to dry those that are wet.
The service is free 24 hours a day. It is enough, for most users, that the rain is caught unexpectedly, it only takes a few hours for the umbrella. After that time, App is charging two yuan per day. And if it were not returned to a whole week, Mosun has understood and bought it.
Mosun has learned from the company that launched the same service, which lost more than 300,000 umbrellas in the first weeks of operations
The power of collaborative economics
As in many other countries, China's collaborative economics was strengthened with Uber and AirBnb services. More specifically, with local versions of Didi Chusing and Tujia. But the real explosion came in 2016 with the deployment of Mobike and Oforen bicycles, which have already reached Spain.
From then on, cities have filled with colorful bikes transforming urban mobility. Especially the last kilometer tracks: public transport users use these bicycles to reach the final destination from the last station.
Mobike and Ofo were the pioneers of this unexpected boom and remained the main companies in the sector, but due to this success, dozens of companies have been created copying this model, although they do not always get ahead. However, this explosion has led to the insanity of the collaborative economy, which is finally a cool euphemism, which is, after all, rent-a-lifetime, but not man-made
In fact, if the newly created services in the past have something in common, it's a smartphone: they all work with the apps, where they need to make a registration deposit, unlocking products by scanning QR codes with the mobile phone
Boom for batteries
For guided cars and bicycles, urban mobility has increased a lot of startups of electric vehicles, which can be used in different parking spaces, equipped with 'electrolysis'. But there are products that can be leased in this way.
As well as exotic services such as basketball balls, the QR code is scanned at a box next to the court and can be played with a pilot inside 1.5 yuan (20 cents per euro) for 30 minutes, or external batteries
These have begun colonizing all kinds of establishments, especially those close to metro stations. In stores and retailers, companies such as AnkerBox put on some kind of cabinet, where these batteries are loaded, which can be accessed by users after a casual scan before moving their mobile devices to one side only for € 1 (euros 13 cents) per hour. At the end of the day, the only thing to do is to return the boxes distributed over the cities, not the ones that can be found with a mobile GPS.
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