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Didi Chuxing accelerates its expansion abroad via M&As, arms

One February morning, nearly 9,000 people braved sub-zero temperature and chilly wind to assemble at a Beijing stadium to wildly cheer their employer's stupendous success overseas.

The company concerned was Didi Chuxing, China's largest ride-hailing company and the world's second most valuable startup after Uber Technologies Inc; and the event was its annual lunar year-end conference.