Tiger Qie, VP of Didi Chuxing and CTO of Didi's Ride sharing Business Group, speaks with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal onstage at the East Tech West event in, Guangzhou, China. Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing company, is set to launch a so-called robo-taxi service in Shanghai "very soon." "We are going to launch a robo-taxi service in Shanghai very soon," Tiger Qie, Didi's vice president and chief technology officer of its ride-sharing unit, said onstage at CNBC's East Tech West event in Guangzhou, China. "Autonomous vehicles and human-driven vehicles are going to co-exist," Qie said in a fireside chat with CNBC's Arjun Kharpal. Didi has grown rapidly since it was founded in 2012, with 550 million users currently registered with its platform.

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