End of the road for the 'taxi-driver village'?

The rise of car-hailing companies has crippled the independent cab trade in Dawang, a small settlement in southeastern China that's home to more than 1,000 drivers and their families. Zhou Mo reports from Shenzhen, Guangdong province.

For about a decade, residents of the Luohu district of Shenzhen, Guangdong province, watched a ritual every evening at dusk as a fleet of taxis spiraled along a narrow mountain road and entered Dawang at the foot of Wutong Mountain.

But the past year has seen changes in "taxi-driver village", as Dawang is known. New online cab-hailing services have been snapping up business, resulting in many taxis disappearing and being replaced by private cars whose drivers use the new platforms.