Sina science and technology - At noon on September 26, Sina science and technology learned that after Tencent travel to launch aggregation taxi, Tencent in the field of online car hailing again new action, wechat Jiugong grid added a taxi entrance, a separate access to T3 travel.

In 2020, wechat added travel services to Tencent's services in the payment page, covering car owner services, public travel services, etc., which is seen as a signal that Tencent has increased its travel services. In July this year, Tencent in the wechat Jiugong grid "travel services", launched a new aggregated taxi function, access to Cao Cao travel, T3 travel, sunshine travel, Shouqi car booking and other taxi platforms, covering many cities across the country.

Tencent is also expanding its access service for aggregated Dache, with Meituan Dache announcing its official access to Tencent's travel service platform in Shanghai in September. The two sides have already started cooperation in Hangzhou, Zhengzhou, Chongqing and other cities.

And recently, there are many users feedback, in the wechat Jiugong grid saw a separate taxi entrance, access is T3 travel, click can directly enter the "T3 taxi" small program taxi. Sources familiar with the matter said that Tencent gave T3 travel a separate level of menu, resident in all cities T3 open operation, and page level corner label also wrote a limited time to promote the word.

Tang Daosheng, senior executive vice president of Tencent Group and CEO of Cloud and smart industry business group, once said that not making cars is the positioning Tencent insists on. In the future, Tencent will help car companies make and sell good cars, improve enterprise management efficiency and improve user travel experience. And the launch of "Tencent travel service" small program, and constantly in the taxi service layout, is an important performance of the construction of the travel ecosystem.

In the wechat nine grid, wechat also gave the investment enterprise flow support. For example, train tickets and hotels in the transportation sector are provided by Tongcheng Elong, and Tencent is the largest shareholder of Tongcheng Elong with a stake of more than 20 percent.

The T3 travel to the location of the nine grid, but also Tencent investment enterprises. T3 Travel is jointly funded by Changan, FAW and other car companies, together with Tencent and Ali. In October 2021, T3 Travel announced the completion of 7.7 billion yuan A round of financing, led by CITIC Consortium investment, FAW, Dongfeng, Chang 'an, Ali, Tencent and other old shareholders continue to increase their holdings.

It's worth noting that in addition to Tencent, Huawei has also been increasing its investment in ride-hailing recently.

In July this year, Huawei went online Petal travel, launched the aggregation taxi mode, access service providers including sunshine travel, Shouqi car, Shenzhou car, etc.; In September this year, Petal travel into T3 travel, official operation for many cities across the country.

The investment of Tencent and Huawei has also brought attention to the aggregation model in the market. In the early stage, aggregation mode was an asset-light approach for Internet companies such as Autonavi and Meituan to enter the ride-hailing service. However, in recent years, security and compliance have become the main theme of the ride-hailing industry, and players who adopt aggregation mode also pay more and more attention to capacity compliance.

According to the data released by T3 Travel, it has entered 92 cities in China and has a compliant capacity of more than 800,000, ranking first in the industry. This is also one of Tencent's key traffic support considerations in the layout of the ride-hailing field. (39)