(Yicai Global) May 16 -- The Beijing transport commission has ordered that Didi Chuxing removes its Qingju-branded shared bikes from the streets of the capital as the mobility giant did not receive the required removals.

The bicycles severely disrupted the local market operations, Beijing Municipal Commission of Transport said on its Weibo account today. 

Beijing-based Didi replaced 3,000 Bluegogo two-wheelers with Qingju models yesterday in Haidian District and Zhongguancun tech park, known as China's Silicon Valley. Local authorities opened an inquiry in response and ordered that all of them are removed by midday tomorrow. 

The move marked the first time that Qingju had entered the Beijing market after the firm claimed to reach a deal with local authorities to replace 10,000 Bluegogo bikes, tech news outlet 36Kr reported yesterday.

Qingju bikes made their debut in Chengdu, capital of western Sichuan province, at the start of last year. However, the brand did not gain much traction as many urban markets were already saturated. Authorities in the first-tier cities of Shenzhen and Shanghai warned bike-sharers against putting any new bikes into circulation illegally in 2018. 

Didi has accelerated the production of Qingju Bikes since last year with the aim of adding two million bikes in first and second-tier hubs, said a source at the firm's bike supplier Fuji-Ta Bicycle.

Editor: William Clegg