App aims to end residents' parking pain

Beijing has launched its first shared parking project in a residential community, to make better use of public spaces.

Finding a place to park has long been an issue for the Huangsi No 24 community, which has 1,600 households and more than 800 automobiles, but only 400 fixed parking spaces.

"We've been trying to find ways to ease the parking problem for a decade," said Wang Bin, the community's director, who manages the subdistrict where the shared parking project was launched on Dec 29.