Didi Wins Okay to Relaunch Apps as China Tech Crackdown Ebbs
- The company says it’s won approval to resume signing up users
- The move symbolizes China’s reversal on its tech giants
The Didi ride-hailing app.
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Didi Global Inc. has secured the green light to resume signing up new users, suggesting the worst is over for a ride-hailing giant that symbolized Beijing’s bruising campaign to rein in its powerful internet industry.
The widely anticipated decision is one of the clearest signs yet that Xi Jinping’s administration, keen to jumpstart an economy that’s sagged under three years of Covid Zero restrictions, sees a need for private sector’s support in that broader campaign.