Huangbaoche, the Chinese Pedicab, also known as rickshaw, it is a mode of human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two persons. Chinese pedicabs have the driver in front and passenger seats in the back.

A Frenchman, carried three hundred rickshaws from Japan to China in 1873, which was a type of single-seat and two-wheel vehicles drawn by a person. It was called "Eastern Ocean Vehicle" at the beginning from Japan and also called "Huangbaoche" because of yellow-painting body. It possesses simple structure, easy operating and small bulk especially so that it could directly send customers to their home across streets and lanes in the city.

Huangbaoche were fast spread to big cities such as Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, and partly replaced the short-distance out-of-date vehicles at that time after it firstly appearing in Beijing,. The wheelers were mostly used to be peasants who couldn't make a living because of natural and man-made disasters and few of them were veterans and hobos. They struggled at the bottom of the old society, there are some novels like 《Camel Xiangzi》 written by Laoshe which vividly described the miserable life of those wheelers.

Nowadays, you can see many huangbaoche in the streets or at some hutong, especially the tourists spots, they are there not only booming the pedicab business, but also prime the traditional culture, add some romance and meanwhile lessen some city pollution.