(Yicai Global) Sept. 20 -- Daily passenger capacity of shared bikes has reached 4.53 million in the city of Shenzhen in southern China's Guangdong province, making it the city's second-biggest mode of transportation in terms of user numbers, state-owned Xinhua News Agency cited Lou Heru, deputy director of Shenzhen Transportation Bureau, as saying.

The city's daily passenger capacity in conventional public transport is 4.74 million, while that of rail transit is 4.5 million. Bike sharing is second in terms of user numbers only to public buses in the city.

Shenzhen was a key area for the early rapid development of bicycle-sharing. Two Beijing Mobike Technology Co. bicycles were donated to a Shenzhen Museum as a collection for display in early August.

Bike sharing is an important milestone in the vicissitudes of social life, and is continuously guiding and changing the travel habits of urban citizens, said Fu Ying, director of the reform policy history research center at Shenzhen Museum.

Shenzhen is also home to a sophisticated management system for bicycle sharing. The city's transport regulators ordered a halt to all new shared-bicycle deliveries in the city on Aug. 23 as part of a clean-up effort. It also ran an investigation to increase transparency on how rider deposits are used.