Didi said drivers in seven Chinese cities, including
Shenyang and Changchun, will be the first to know the details of how much they
receive and how much passengers pay for each trip through a new feature that he
added to his app on Monday, he said in a statement. post on Weibo.
The company, which is backed by SoftBank, Alibaba Group and
Tencent Holdings, will continue to adjust its pricing strategy after receiving
responses from drivers, he said.
“There are still many shortcomings with this transparent
income statement that was delivered late, we will continue to improve it and
work hard to expand it to other cities,” he said.
In May, the Chinese state news agency Xinhua claimed in an
investigation that Didi received more than 30% of what customers paid for a
trip and criticized the policy that it called unfair.
Following the Xinhua report, Didi said in a post that
drivers received on average 79.1% of passenger fares for rides last year and
that 3.1% of the fares were earmarked for their benefit.
Didi is being investigated by various Chinese regulators over issues such as handling customer data. The company went ahead with its $ 4.4 billion initial public offering in New York in June, despite rejection by the China Cyberspace Administration.