Today, Dida Travel announced its official joining of Huawei's Hongmeng ecosystem, becoming one of the first companies in the mobile travel industry to join HarmonyOS NEXT since the public beta testing began on October 8th.

Joining the Hongmeng ecosystem signifies a crucial step for Dida Travel in supporting the development of domestic operating systems. Mr. Zhang Kangzong, Technical Director of Dida Travel, said: "This is not only an important expansion of the company's technical strategic blueprint, but also a deep commitment to enhancing user experience. By integrating with Huawei's native HarmonyOS, we aim to create a more intelligent and smooth application interface for Dida users, making travel experiences easier and more convenient."

Furthermore, by integrating into the Hongmeng ecosystem, together advancing the intelligentization of mobile travel, not only can it empower the ecological expansion of Huawei's native Hongmeng applications, but also jointly build an open, secure, and efficient new travel experience, injecting more new possibilities into the era of intelligent interconnection.

In addition, leveraging the powerful IoT capabilities of HarmonyOS, Dida Travel will further accelerate the seamless integration and upgrade of multi-platform services, laying a solid foundation for future business layouts. This includes but is not limited to the commercial application of self-driving technology, and driving the deep integration of in-taxi industry vehicle systems with smartphones.

Efficient collaboration to jointly create a new benchmark in the Hongmeng ecosystem travel sector.

Currently, the latest version of the Dida Travel App based on HarmonyOS NEXT has been launched. Huawei users can download the Hongmeng version of the Dida Travel App from the Huawei AppMarket after upgrading their operating systems to HarmonyOS NEXT. Additionally, the native HarmonyOS versions of the Dida Taxi Driver App and the Dida Hitch Owner App will be launched successively.

As the first independently developed domestic operating system, HarmonyOS NEXT achieves full-stack self-research, including from the operating system kernel, file system, to programming language, compiler/runtime, programming framework, design system, integrated development environment, AI framework, and large models. It is based on the three core Hongmeng native features of full-scenario, native intelligence, and native security, possessing technological advantages for the future AI era.

Hongmeng's ecosystem is a new ecosystem for the era of intelligent interconnection of all things. It will focus on the development direction of new technologies, once again upgrade user experiences in privacy protection, smoothness, stability, and security, and create an advanced, minimalist, extremely smooth, privacy-safe, open and win-win ecosystem.

Collaborating with huawei HarmonyOS NEXT, Dida Travel's native applications will be upgraded and integrated in notification services and live window interactions, presenting dynamic service displays to allow consumers to get key information at any time, view trip changes. They will also explore cooperation with Xiaoyi AI intelligence, enabling services to be more intelligently recommended to consumers with the support of large-scale model collaboration and intent frameworks.

As HarmonyOS NEXT is about to enter commercial use, Dida Travel will continue to iteratively improve and optimize the functions of hongmeng's native applications, collaboratively creating a benchmark for hongmeng ecosystem in the travel sector with huawei.

Production and research collaboration accelerates multi-platform layout, continuously evolving the travel user experience.

Over the past decade, Dida Travel has always been committed to driving experience efficiency improvement through product technology innovation. According to dida travel statistics, Dida Travel App, Dida Taxi Driver's End, and Dida Ride-Sharing Car Owner App have completed a total of 346 version iterations and upgrades. Each upgrade includes several functional innovations or experience enhancements. As of June 30, 2024, Dida Travel has registered users reached 0.368 billion, and certified ride-sharing car owners reached 17.7 million.

With the empowerment of big data and AI, under the collaboration of production and research, Dida Travel App continues to evolve and upgrade in aspects such as order-taking mechanism, pre-departure car-passenger communication, ride-matching efficiency, personalized demand satisfaction, intelligent security, payment and credit system construction, map and navigation experience, winning widespread user praise. For example, during this year's Dida Ride-Sharing Car User Symposium, users provided feedback on Dida Travel App: "more youthful interface", "more rigorous ride-matching calculations", "more professional process mechanisms", "real-time security guarantees", "more vertical ride-sharing ecosystem", "more humane and warm human touch", and more.

At the same time, DiDi Chuxing is continuously promoting a unified experience across multiple platforms, making the user experience of hailing a ride through the app or mini-program more consistent. A major feature of this upgrade of HarmonyOS NEXT is the ability to develop once and deploy across multiple platforms. Newly developed smartphone applications can be easily adapted and applied to PCs, autos, tablets, smartwatches, and many other platforms.

In the field of innovative smart taxis, DiDi Chuxing is actively implementing the 'Taxi•New Mobility' strategy, and jointly developing new intelligent software for taxis to promote the integration of in-car and mobile phone systems in the cities where it operates. This helps improve the efficiency of driver pick-up experiences and passenger ride experiences for traditional taxis. As autonomous driving technology gradually moves towards commercialization, DiDi Chuxing anticipates that users will need smoother and smarter ways to interact with phones and vehicles. Integrating with HarmonyOS NEXT at this time will not only greatly improve the efficiency of application development for DiDi Chuxing, but also pave the way for users to have a seamless digital journey, allowing them to enjoy a consistent and superior experience whether through handheld devices or future autonomous driving cabins.

This collaboration with Huawei's HarmonyOS ecosystem will usher in a new era of deep integration between the ride-hailing service platform and the HarmonyOS ecosystem, jointly exploring more new possibilities brought by technological innovation and leading the future trend of smart mobility.