Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

According to the news at noon on September 26, Tencent has made new moves in the field of online car-hailing after Tencent launched a converged ride-hailing service. Nine Miyagi WeChat has added a first-level entrance to ride-hailing and separately connected to T3 travel.

In 2020, Wechat added a new travel service to the Tencent service on the payment page, including car owner service, public travel service and so on, which is regarded as a sign that Tencent increases its travel service.

In July this year, Tencent launched a new aggregate ride-hailing function in WeChat's "travel service", which connects to many ride-hailing platforms such as Cao Cao Travel, T3 Travel, Sunshine Travel and SAIC car-hailing platform, covering many cities across the country.

Tencent is also expanding its access service provider to convergent ride-hailing. In September this year, Meituan announced that it was officially connected to Tencent's travel service platform in Shanghai. Prior to this, the two sides have already started cooperation in Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities.

Recently, there are many user feedback, in WeChat Nine Miyagi saw a separate taxi entrance, access is T3 travel, click can directly enter the "T3 taxi" Mini Program taxi. According to a person familiar with the matter, Tencent has opened a separate menu for T3, resident in all cities where T3 is open, and has the word time-limited promotion written on page-level corner labels.

Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Cloud and Intelligent Industry Group, once said that not building cars is Tencent's position. In the future, Tencent will help car companies build good cars, sell good cars, improve enterprise management efficiency, and improve user travel experience. The launch of the "Tencent travel service" Mini Program, as well as the continuous layout of taxi-hailing services, is an important performance of the construction of the travel ecosystem.

In WeChat Nine Palace Grid, Wechat also gives flow support to investment enterprises. For example, train tickets and hotels in the transportation section are provided by Yilong, while Tencent is the largest shareholder of Cheng Yilong, with a shareholding ratio of more than 20%.

The T3 trip, which is given to the nine palace grid position, is also an enterprise invested by Tencent. T3 travel by Changan, FAW and other car companies, jointly funded by Tencent and Ali. In October 2021, T3 announced the completion of 7.7 billion yuan A round of financing, led by CITIC consortium, FAW, Dongfeng, Changan, Ali, Tencent and other veteran shareholders continued to be blessed.

It is worth noting that in addition to Tencent, Huawei has recently been increasing investment in the field of ride-hailing.

In July this year, Huawei launched Petal Travel and launched a converged taxi-hailing model, with access service providers including Sunshine Travel, first Auto car booking, China Special car, and so on. In September this year, Petal Travel was connected to T3 Travel, officially operating in many cities across the country.

Tencent and Huawei have invested one after another, which has also attracted attention to the aggregation model in the market. In the early days, the aggregation model was a light asset practice for Internet companies such as Gaode and Meituan to enter the bureau for car-hailing, but in recent years, safety and compliance have become the main theme of the ride-hailing industry, and players who adopt the aggregation model are paying more and more attention to transport compliance.

Meituan connects to Tencent by taxi and provides services in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities.

"Tencent Travel tests the car-hailing function in Wechat and provides aggregate travel services."

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