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Biz: Repair crews race to get bikes back on the streets

As China's bike-sharing market expands rapidly, some cities' curbsides are overloaded with damaged bicycles. The high usage rate makes a shared bike more vulnerable than a private bicycle, not to mention damage caused by vandalism. Li Zhifu, a repairman working for a bike-sharing company in Chengdu, Sichuan province, told a local newspaper that he fixes 60 to 70 shared bicycles every day, and the number once rose to more than 100.