Free bike system gets rolling on 100 sets of wheels

Beijing kicked off its new public bicycle service program yesterday.

As many as 100 free bicycles will be available for use at three stations to the more than 40,000 residents living in Chaoyangmen area of Dongcheng.

The first 200 Chaoyangmen residents received their new scannable transportation cards for the free bicycle use system by the Dongsi subway station, which is also one of the new free bike stations, Monday afternoon. The other two bike stations are in Dafangjia hutong and Nanzhugan hutong.