It is good news that more and more people choose the bike as the means of transportation in China because there is too much traffic in the busy streets.
Xu Shima was 16 in 1980 and had to learn a trade. He c______ bike repair. Over the next twenty years, it proved(证明) to be a wise d______. At that time, China was known a_____ the “Kingdom(王国) of Bikes” and was home to the world's largest number of people who ride bikes. In the 1990s, Xu's b____ was the most successful.
But in 2000, Xu had to g_____ up his trade because more and more people began to use electric(电动的) bikes and cars. He even made a living by s____ fruits and working as a factory security guard (保安). He showed n_____ interest in returning to bike repair.
Yet the tide has again turned, and in 2009 Xu returned to his trade and now repairs a lot of bikes a day. Xu is o____ of 155 bike mechanics (修理工) at the Hangzhou Public Bike Transportation Development Co and repairs the company's n_ 70,000 public bikes in the city.
“I'm glad cycling is p______ again,” says Xu.
Inspired by the public bike system in Paris, Hangzhou government set up its own project in May 2008, hoping to ease the city's increasing traffic jams in this way.