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BEIJING， March 7 (Xinhua) -- Yu Chun has driven public buses in her hometown for more than two decades.
The seasoned driver has come to Beijing every spring since 2013 as a National People's Congress (NPC) deputy and devoted her energy to steering her fellow lawmakers' attention toward urban traffic management.
But this year， the 50-year-old Yu crossed off buses from her priority list to focus on an environmentally-friendly alternative: bikes.
The craze for two-wheels has returned to China， once known as "the Bicycle Kingdom，" since bike-sharing tech firms made inroads into the market over the last three years.
To ride such a bike only requires downloading an app and paying a deposit via a mobile wallet. GPS-imbedded bikes can be picked up， scanned with a QR code and dropped off anywhere on the street after the ride.
Bike-sharing has taken the country by storm， spreading from Beijing and Shanghai to scores of smaller cities. More than 3 million such bikes are now on the streets， according to industry estimates.
But random and hazardous parking of the bikes has caused concern.
Yu said she was supportive of using bikes as a low-carbon solution to the traffic gridlock so common in large Chinese cities.
In her city Hangzhou， Zhejiang Province， the government began promoting public bikes as early as 2008.
"It's good to see people commute in environmentally-friendly ways， but many bike users just leave their bikes at random， blocking traffic and sometimes posing safety threats，" she said. "This may derail the sector from sustainable growth."
As a bus driver， Yu sees parking annoyances more often than others. She has even spotted people "having spats" over shared bike parking.
"Shared bikes have done good for society， but they also need to be properly regulated，" she said.
As an NPC deputy， Yu decided to bring the issue to the national legislature.
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