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WATCH | How to Call Every Ride Hailing App All At Once

Admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2021 03:00:26 +0000

Getting to work on a Monday morning during rush hour is a nightmare! There have been more than a handful of mornings where I’ve stared at my Didi in disbelief at my place 58^th in line for the next available car.

Beijing’s a busy city and it seems like we’re all in a rush to get somewhere. And while Didi is the most convenient ride-hailing app for non-Chinese speakers to use, it’s not the only one.

Recently I’ve discovered that Amaps (the standard navigation app that comes with android phones) has a ride-hailing service that’ll call cars through every app all at once, giving you better chances of getting a car much quicker especially during rush hours.

Check out the video below for a step-by-step guide on using the Amaps ride-hailing service.

KEEP READING: Didi English Now Allows You to Edit Destination Mid-Ride

Images: Mina Yan, Pexels

Here’s Your Feel-Good Video to Kick Off the May Day Holiday: BCIS Getting Funky

Thu, 30 Apr 2015 01:43:35 +0000

Here’s just the feelgood video you’ll need to kick off the long May Day holiday weekend: BCIS students bopping their way across Beijing to the strains of Bruno Mars/Mark Ronson’s Uptown Funk during their annual China Week last week.

Rock on, BCIS!

Mobile users: if you can’t see the video embed, see this youku link.

Pandamania

beijingkids — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:09:04 +0000

Wolong Giant Panda Breeding and Research Centre in Sichuan province has opened the world’s first kindergarten for baby pandas. The centre hopes to encourage the pandas to socialise and play, and eventually develop the skills needed to find a mate.

There are only 1000 giant pandas left in the wild and 138 in captivity. This is a frightening statistic, heightened by the fact that panda mothers can only conceive babies for a tiny 72-hour period each year.

If (and only if) you can handle the seriously cute, check out these wee pandas, playing on kindergarten equipment in the snow.

Check out this panda movie from YouTube:

And for more baby panda cuteness from Reuters…

Panda Facts

Think you know your panda facts? Take this Panda Quiz but brush up on your knowledge first…

Pandas can eat more than 10,000 kilograms of bamboo a day.
You can’t tell if a baby panda is a boy or a girl until they are 4-years-old!
Pandas are pink when they are born and weigh one-nine-hundredths of their mother’s weight.
Wild pandas are only found in China.
Pandas need to eat bamboo or they will die.
Their front paws have an extra “thumb” which is used to grasp small bamboo shoots.
Pandas spend up to 14 hours a day eating.
One of the reason pandas are becoming extinct is that they like to live alone and don’t socialise very well.
Pandas can swim and climb trees!
Considered living fossils, pandas have been on earth for over 3 million years.