Today's shared bicycles can be seen almost everywhere, and you can see one within a few steps. Whether it is a Hello bicycle or a Meitu bicycle, or a green orange bicycle, you can ride which one you want, according to statistics, the total number of shared bicycles in operation in major cities now exceeds 20 million, and hundreds of thousands of cars are retired for various reasons every year. So do you know where these decommissioned cars went?
Crossed the ocean to Cambodia
"I finally have my own bike!" When a brand-new bicycle was placed in front of The Little Girl Chun Qianling, the 12-year-old girl danced happily. In fact, this is a shared bicycle retired from Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province, and after renovation and repair by the staff, it crossed the ocean to Cambodia and was sent to local children.
Chun Xiling's school is located in the Bati district of Cambodia's Paojiao Province, while Xiao Chun's classmates are 3 km away from this college. Chun Qianling's family is poor, the adults in the family are busy working every day to earn money, and no one can send her to school, because Chun Qianling has to walk for more than half an hour every day to get to school.
According to Koharu, some of their classmates are farther away from school, getting up early every day and rushing to school. "Well, now that I have a bike, it's from China, and I don't have to walk that much anymore." Chun Xiling's other classmates have also been assigned bicycles, and now they ride together regardless of school or school, so it is not busy.
After the retirement of these shared bicycles, the positioners and electronic locks were removed by various companies and refurbished and repaired. In February this year, the first batch of about 1,000 cars left Shanghai, arrived in Cambodia after many days, and were distributed to more than 1,000 students in 4 provinces.
A changed life
The bicycles we see every day are simply unattainable dreams for Cambodian children. In Cambodia, many remote areas lack schools and public transportation due to factors such as poverty. Cambodian families can only barely make ends meet, it is already very good to be able to go to school, where can they afford to buy bicycles for their children?
In fact, Cambodian children spend more than two hours a day on the road to school, and Cambodia's changing weather and poor road conditions make going to school a challenge, and many families have to drop out of school early.
After owning a bike, children can ride to school, and many have changed their minds about dropping out of school. These bicycles can be said to be the fulcrum of their fate.