It was freezing and the streets were slick as substitute driver Liu Pengfei bade...
BEIJING - It was freezing and the streets were slick as substitute driver Liu Pengfei bade farewell to his mother, wife and son before riding into Beijing on his tiny scooter.
Liu, 33, and his fellow drivers make their living getting drunk people safely home. And with Beijing urging restaurants, entertainment venues and public transportation to extend hours in a bid to boost consumption, Liu’s clients on DiDi Chuxing, China’s biggest ride-hailing service platform, have multiplied.
He and other drivers hang around night spots - less than 100 meters away, 12 men at a table were gorging on meat and downing beer - and when hired, use their clients’ own cars to drive them home. It is too soon to say whether extending opening hours of malls, creating food streets, and putting on late-night cultural performances will boost China’s consumption, with the economy still languishing at near 30-year lows. But on-demand drivers seem to be one early beneficiary.
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