China Tech Digest: Meituan To Co-build Urban Low-altitude Logistics Center In Shanghai; Tencent Will Launch Star Exploration Project

Meituan cooperates with Shanghai Jinshan District to build China’s first urban low-altitude logistics demonstration center

At World Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021, Chinese group-buying service giant Meituan demonstrated its UAV for the first time and signed a contract with Shanghai Jinshan District to jointly promote the landing of China’s first urban low-altitude logistics demonstration center in Jinshan District. As of June 2021, Meituan’s UAVs have completed more than 200,000 flight tests and delivered more than 2,500 real orders. Meituan launched the exploration of UAV delivery scenarios in 2017 and has initially completed the research and development of autonomous flying UAV, automated airport, and UAV dispatching system. More than 90% of the core system components are independently developed by Meituan.