Second Chinese bike-sharing firm shuts after public appeal fails to bring back stolen bicycles

Another bike sharing firm has shut down in China after most of its cycles went missing, presumed stolen, according to Chinese media reports.

The Beijing-based company 3Vbike says most of its more than 1,000 bikes have disappeared, the website of the Global Times reported.

The firm reported it was shutting last month just over a week after Wukong Bicycle in Chongqing closed its services, the report said.

3Vbike was first registered last year with initial capital of 100,000 yuan (US$14,700), according to the article.

Wu Shenghua, the founder of the company, then spent 700,000 yuan himself buying bikes and on operational costs after failing to find fresh funding.