How to clean up bike-sharing firms' mess

Editor's Note: Mobike, one of the biggest bike-sharing startups, recently launched a complete bicycle maintenance measure and began recycling the "lite 1.0 version" of its bikes with poor durability. Although building a circular economy was the original goal of the bike-sharing startups, thousands of broken-down bikes abandoned on the streets show the huge waste of resources. Two experts share their views on how to solve this problem with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:

Cooperation can solve shared bikes' problem

Bike-sharing is an innovative business model that allows startups to rent instead of selling bicycles to users, and thus curb material consumption while meeting the needs of consumers.