Learning from Cities— The 2nd Guangzhou International Award for Urban Innovation
066 and more, resulting in heavier and heavier
enterprises are oriented by public welfare.
burden, which will eventually restrict the
The rent is basically for free and the ratio
quality of the urban public bicycle project
is over 96%. Being market-oriented, it
in the promotion. Take the public bicycle
transfers the right of management of
system in Wuhan for example. To reduce
service booths and advertisement on
financial stress when promoting the public
bikes to the private sectors and explores
bicycle project, the local government fully
to establish kiosks. The operation
delegated the right of management of the
income is spent for system maintenance,
public bicycle project to the local private
labour costs and vehicle maintenance.
enterprises. In the absence of government
After realizing a basic balance in 2011,
leading, enterprises pursue profits blindly,
they gradually make earnings, without
making the “Wuhan model” of public
spending a penny from taxpayers any
bicycles paralyzed and reformed in April,
more.
2014, thus giving rise to the loss of stateowned assets. The business model of public bicycle in Hangzhou completely avoids the above
Experience and Inspiration
problems. After the government makes a
1.Government Leading, Scientific
one-off financial input to public bicycle
Planning
infrastructure, it mainly administrates
Hangzhou Municipal Government
from planning and regulations while
integrated the cycling lanes into its urban
□ Public Bicycle Sharing Facility