Confronting the problem of traffic congestion in cities, more and more public bicycle systems have been constructed all over the world. From the perspective of public pricing, the pricing models of public bicycle systems in China can be classified as free common pool resources model, low-priced quasi-public products model and high-priced private products model. This study selected Wuhan, Hangzhou and Beijing as cases to analyze their pricing models. However, neither free common pool resources nor high-priced private products is feasible for Chinese cities to operate public bicycle systems. Government must join this project and provide fiscal subsidies and policy supports. Public pricing should regard public trait as its fundamental point.