Missing piece in the new public bicycle service puzzle

The problem with China (I hear you say, "One of the problems ") is that progress and improvement develop their own way, independently and without a logical and systematic plan. Here is an example.

Earlier this year, Beijing municipality announced that it had started to install bicycles for public use, and that by 2015, 50,000 bicycles would be in service across 1,000 locations around the city. By June 16, nearly 2,000 bicycles had been stationed in 63 locations of Dongcheng and Chaoyang districts.

I saw three of these locations myself. In one place, the stand for 20 bikes was empty, meaning that all the bicycles had effectively been borrowed, unless it meant that the bikes had not been installed yet.