New online services have tougher time fundraising

Ding Jinlin has earned more than 200 five-star ratings from her customers since June after registering as a part-time ayi, or housekeeper, through an online tool that helps connect people with service providers.

The tool for booking housekeepers, located at 58.com, works something like Uber, the taxi-hailing app. The customer pays a fee up front when scheduling a housekeeper, and the worker keeps all the money earned on a job.

Ding said she earned more than 8,000 yuan ($1,258) in September. The average salary of business employees in Beijing was 6,463 yuan in 2014.