Cheng Wei all assets of the Chinese division of Uber, including its brand, business operations and data for operation within mainland China. Under the terms of the deal, Wei is set to become a board member of Uber and Uber's CEO also gets a seat on DiDi's board. 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. The company has evolved from a simple taxi-hailing app to taxi hailing, private car hailing, hitch (social ride-sharing), bus, minibus, chauffeur service, car rental service,
Censorship of the iTunes Store configuration. Searches for 'VPN', for example, would cause the connection to be reset. According to the "Global Times", the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said on 13 December 2012 that it planned to "strengthen regulation of China's mobile applications market" in the near future. The Shanghai-based "IT Times" quoted Chen Jinqiao as saying that the plans included "[bringing] app developers under supervision and [establishing] a real-name registration system for independent developers. In 2013, Apple pulled several apps from the China App Store for containing books banned by the government. Several apps enabling users to bypass the Great Firewall and