滴滴正就收購Ofo進行談判
Chinese ride hailing app Didi Chuxing is in talks to take over Ofo as the bike-sharing start-up bleeds cash in the cut-throat sector.
中國叫車應用滴滴出行正就收購Ofo進行談判，該共享單車初創企業正在競爭激烈的行業中大把燒錢。Once one of the fastest-growing fads in China, dockless bike-sharing companies proliferated over the past couple of years and expanded rapidly across the globe.
共享單車曾經是中國增長最快的風尚之一，過去幾年無樁式共享單車企業像雨後春筍般涌現，並在全球快速擴張。However, the fight for market share led rival groups to burn through vast sums of money and after some fell by the wayside, the sector has now been reduced to two companies: Alibaba-backed Ofo and Mobike, which was bought this year by food delivery and services company Meituan Dianping.
然而，爲爭奪市場份額，相互競爭的企業燒掉了鉅額資金，在一些公司倒閉後，現在該行業僅剩下兩家主要企業：阿里巴巴支持的Ofo以及摩拜單車，後者今年被送餐和在線服務集團美團點評收購。
Vandalism, theft and poorly maintained bikes have added to the tales of woe, along with "bike graveyards" in cities across the nation.
自行車被人爲毀壞、被盜和保養不善，以及全國各城市的“自行車墓地”，讓共享單車行業的處境雪上加霜。
Ofo has been forced to retreat from an ambitious overseas push, unable to keep up with the spending of Mobike, which recently waived all Chinese users' deposits in an effort to push out other players.
Ofo無法跟上摩拜的燒錢步伐，被迫放棄了雄心勃勃的海外擴張。爲將其他競爭對手擠出市場，摩拜最近退還了所有中國用戶的押金。Last week, Chinese media reported that Ofo faced losing access to 3m of its bicycles after an anonymous supplier, which made its smart locks, threatened to "freeze" those locks if Ofo kept delaying its payments to the supplier.
上週，中國媒體報道稱，一家匿名的Ofo智能鎖供應商威脅稱，如果該公司繼續拖延付款，將“凍結”這些鎖，這將導致300萬輛Ofo自行車無法使用。"We already have a resolution for the problem of the service fees, that we are in the middle of implementing," Ofo said. "There is no 'frozen lock' problem."
Ofo方面對此表示：“關於服務費問題，我們已經有了解決方案，正在實施中。不存在'凍結鎖'的問題。”Didi, which already holds a stake in Ofo, has previously ended cash-burning competition by buying its rivals -- including the Chinese operations of Uber, which it acquired in 2016 in return for a 20 per cent stake.
已持有Ofo部分股權的滴滴，此前已通過收購競爭對手--包括優步(Uber)的中國業務（滴滴於2016年收購了這項業務，作爲交換，優步獲得滴滴20%的股份）--結束了燒錢競爭。
