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After absorbing Uber’s China operation through a merger, Chinese car-pooling company Didi Chuxing has made public its ambition to win more international recognition and become a world-class technology company, one of its co-founders revealed in Beijing.

Didi Chuxing, the 4-year-old startup that used to be known as “China’s Uber,” now boasts more than 10 million daily orders and up to 300 million users in 400 cities across China, holding over 87 percent of the market share.

The company defeated and merged with its competitor, Kuaidi Dache, in 2015, and then launched an offensive against Uber, with both sides pouring huge subsidies into the business until August, when another merger settled the price battle.

Zhang Bo, co-founder of Didi Chuxing and also its chief technology officer (CTO), recounted the four-year process of the company’s development during a panel discussion on the sidelines of 2016 AI World Expo, held in Beijing on Oct. 18.

Zhang announced that it is the company’s goal to become a world-class tech giant, with an international reputation to match.

“Now is a good time, since predecessors like Baidu, Tencent and Alibaba have already gained experience in technology, and we have a large data pool in Didi,” he told the panel.

Thanks to that data pool, Zhang said Didi Chuxing stands out in its predictive technology, which guarantees the high efficiency of its car-pooling service. He added that parts of the data pool will soon be made available to researchers and programmers, as Didi Chuxing seeks worldwide cooperation to promote intelligent transportation.

Zhang stressed that his company imposes strict inspections on drivers using the platform in order to guarantee that "bad drivers" will be gradually driven off the platform and "good drivers" can make more money from it. He added that some 5 million drivers are currently making money through the platform. There are reportedly a total of 15 million drivers on Didi Chuxing.

“We will put more censors in cars to detect problematic driving behaviors, such as sudden acceleration or braking,” Zhang noted.

It is unclear whether the censors will also work to supervise drivers’ behaviors inside the car – something many people believe there is a need for, in the wake of multiple cases of male drivers sexually assaulting female passengers.