Xiamen Public Transportation Group plans to add 500 buses to update old vehicles, intensify bus lines and open new lines this year and 200-300 new drivers will be recruited, reports Xiamen Evening News.

According to the report, there are now more than 6,000 bus drivers in Xiamen, but the vast majority are male, taking up over 98% of the figure, with only a bit more than 100 female drivers in this profession.

Nearly one-third of the bus drivers come from other places outside Xiamen. Drivers from nearby Zhangzhou, Quanzhou take the majority, and the remaining mainly come from provinces outside Fujian, such as Jiangxi, Henan, Anhui, Sichuan and Guizhou Province.