1.August 15 (1908 September 10) The department store of American Global Supply Company opened a car rental department at No.97, Sichuan Road (now Sichuan Middle Road) to provide taxi service for customers who buy goods. In the third year of Xuantong (19 1 1), the Shanghai Concession authorities approved the applications of taxi companies such as Pingzhimen Foreign Firm and American Automobile Company. In the second year, taxi companies in China, such as Longfei and Yitai, were established one after another. In the second year of the Republic of China (19 13), there were 9 taxi companies with 43 vehicles. The fare is 4 ~ 6 yuan (silver dollar) per hour, and the passengers are mainly foreign businessmen and dignitaries.

2. In the early days of liberation in Shanghai, there were still 29 taxi companies with 370 cars. Taxi business is slow, and enterprises make a living by borrowing money or selling assets. 1951September, with the support of the government, Xiangsheng Automobile Company, the largest taxi company in Shanghai, was approved for public-private partnership. 1956 joint venture and public-private partnership in taxi industry Shanghai taxi company absorbed 16 car companies including East China, and realized the unified operation of taxis in the city, with 185 taxis.

3. After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, taxis were gradually brought into the track of urban construction and development. Since 1983, Shanghai taxis have broken the situation of being operated by a few units and created a new situation of multi-level and multi-channel taxi operation. Not only has the national enterprise developed, but also collective and individual taxis have mushroomed, and even farmers have set up taxi companies. Since then, Sino-foreign cooperation, Sino-foreign joint ventures and joint-stock taxi companies have been established. 1985 in March, in order to strengthen the unified management of the taxi industry operated by many companies, the municipal government issued the "Regulations on the Administration of Taxi Passenger Transport in Shanghai".

Volkswagen is definitely not the earliest. Xiangsheng Automobile Company and Shanghai Taxi Company are the predecessors of Johnson & Johnson Company.