Shared-Bike Fleet Quotas & Published Operator Scorecards

Nanjing regulates dockless bikes through a 2017 joint rule of the transport, police and urban management bureaus, revised in 2020. Operators must license every bike, register users by real name, fit locks with positioning and communications modules, roll out geofenced parking zones, staff at least 50 field workers per 10,000 bikes, and feed vehicle and staff data live into a government monitoring platform. Deployment plans must be filed before bikes hit the street. Twice a year the three bureaus publish a scored evaluation of each operator, with a third-party satisfaction survey folded in. One clause makes Nanjing an outlier: the city does not permit shared electric bikes at all.