The Research on Business Model of Sharing Economy: In Case of Taxi-hailing Didi

Sharing economy is a business model based on the sharing of idle goods or services in the mobile Internet Era. Although sharing economy was proposed thirty years ago, it has penetrated into finance, catering, housekeeping services, agricultural production and other fields in recent years. Against the background of wide-spread entrepreneurship and innovation, the development of sharing economy is of great significance to the steady growth of China's economy. This paper defines sharing economy, and describes its characteristics, the driving force of formation and the main business model by taking taxi-hailing Didi which is a typical case in the sharing economy as an example. This paper researches the business model of sharing economy. At last, we put forward some suggestions for the development of sharing economy in China.