Didi's China ride-hailing app back on some app stores - Reuters

BEIJING, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Didi Global's Chinese ride-hailing app returned to immoderate Android app stores connected Tuesday, according to Reuters checks and a root with nonstop cognition of the matter, signalling its emergence from astir 1-1/2 years of regulatory troubles.

Didi has been awaiting support to resume caller idiosyncratic registrations and downloads of its 25 banned apps successful China arsenic a cardinal measurement to instrumentality to mean concern since its regulatory problems started successful mid-2021.

The ride-hailer, launched successful Beijing successful 2012 and backed by salient investors including Alibaba (9988.HK), Tencent (0700.HK) and SoftBank Group (9984.T), ran afoul of the almighty Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) regulator erstwhile successful 2021 it pressed up with a U.S. banal listing against the regulator's wishes, sources antecedently told Reuters.

Its 25 mobile apps were past ordered to beryllium taken down from app stores, the registration of caller users was suspended, and it was fined $1.2 cardinal implicit data-security breaches.

Didi said successful a connection connected Monday it had been fixed the greenish airy from home regulators to resume caller idiosyncratic registrations for its halfway ride-hailing app from Monday.

The determination comes arsenic Chinese policymakers question to reconstruct backstage assemblage assurance and number connected the exertion manufacture to assistance spur an system ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Reuters reported connected Friday, citing sources, that Chinese authorities were acceptable to let Didi to resume caller idiosyncratic registrations and downloads of its apps astatine location arsenic soon arsenic this week.

Reporting by Yingzhi Yang and Julie Zhu Editing by David Goodman and Mark Potter

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