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Since the company was founded in 2012, under the leadership of Cheng Wei and Jean Liu, DiDi has grown to become one of the world’s highest valued tech start-ups.
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494:"Tencent, Alibaba-Backed Chinese Taxi-Hailing Apps to Merge"
329:"Uber Has Always Looked Unstoppable. Then It Went to China"
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