Uber’s China branch recently closed a $1.2 billion round of funding. Uber is aggressively expanding its Chinese footprint, with plans to operate in 100 more cities in the country in the next year. And Uber’s top three most popular cities — Guangzhou, Hangzhou, and Chengdu — are all in China.  Uber’s service is taking off in China much faster than it did in the US; nine months after launching in Chengdu, Uber had 479 times the trips it had in New York after the same amount of time.