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Didi Chuxing (Chinese: 滴滴出行; pinyin: Dīdī Chūxíng, pronounced [tɨ́tɨ́ ʈʂʰúɕɪ̌ŋ]), formerly Didi Kuaidi (Chinese: 滴滴快的), is a major ride-sharing company, providing transportation services for more than 450 million users across over 400 cities in China. Its headquarters is located in Beijing. It provides services including taxi hailing, private car hailing, Hitch (social ride-sharing), DiDi Chauffeur, DiDi Bus, DiDi Test Drive, DiDi Car Rental, DiDi Enterprise Solutions, DiDi Minibus, DiDi Luxe and bike-sharing to users in China via a smartphone application. DiDi has over 7,000 employees with 40 percent women. Formed from the merger of rival firms Didi Dache and Kuaidi Dache (backed by the two largest Chinese Internet companies, Tencent and Alibaba respectively), it was valued (as of June 2016) at approximately US$28 billion. DiDi acquired Uber's China unit on August 1, 2016. It is the only company to have all of China's three internet giants — Alibaba, Tencent, and Baidu — as its investors. In April 2017, DiDi closed over US$5.5 billion financing round, becoming one of the most valuable start-ups and technology companies in the world, with over US$50 billion worth of valuation, and backed by over 100 investors. Didi Chuxing is the largest and most powerful ride-sharing company in the world, with a monopolistic investment and M&A portfolio in the ride and bike sharing industry across the globe. The company completed 1.4 billion rides milestone in just 2015 alone, as well as clocking over 200 million rides in 2016. This far surpassed any other ride-sharing company, including Uber which completed only 1 billion rides in 6 years' time since its founding in 2009. In May 2017, Didi Chuxing started to develop an English version of its app and services, with plans to expand its platform globally. Recently, it has also been involved in autonomous driving and artificial intelligence (AI), hiring researchers and investing in these areas.