Foreign media praise Shenzhen's drone delivery: "Rooftop Airport" exceeded 100,000 orders last year

Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Shen Tingting

After a reporter from "MIT Technology Review" recently experienced drone delivery in Shenzhen, he lamented the "wonderful experience" in his article titled "Drone food delivery has become a part of urban life in Shenzhen" , saying that the service provider Meituan has verified that planned drone delivery in cities is feasible.

Consumers’ requirements for “fast” certainty are constantly increasing, and they are rapidly promoting technological changes. Currently, many Chinese companies, including Meituan and JD.com, as well as American technology giants such as Google and Amazon, are actively developing low-altitude drone delivery technology to adapt to rapid fulfillment in different scenarios. Amazon, for example, first floated the idea in 2013, but its progress was limited by regulation and lack of demand. Wing, owned by Google parent Alphabet, has had greater success, operating drone deliveries on three continents. Walmart is backing several drone startups in experiments to try delivering its goods by drone.

In this article, the reporter believes that it is more difficult for Meituan to choose densely populated urban communities than its American counterparts such as Amazon and Google parent company Alphabet, but this choice is also more meaningful in China because most people All live in high-rise apartment buildings in the city, and many order takeout every day.

In July last year, the international media "The Diplomat" also specifically analyzed the drone delivery exploration of Chinese companies such as Meituan and JD.com as a case of Sino-US commercial drone competition, and commented that China is Vigorously develop drone delivery technology to solve problems such as long-distance delivery in rural and suburban areas and high demand pressure in cities. At the same time, compared with companies such as Amazon, "China's drone delivery technology and experience are already ahead of the United States."

As early as April 2017, the British "Economist" magazine published an article titled "Shenzhen has become a hothouse for innovation", discussing why Shenzhen has become the "crown jewel" of world innovation and invention and how to rewrite world innovation. The rules and how to cultivate innovative enterprise clusters were systematically and vividly analyzed.

The "MIT Technology Review" article also stated that for some Shenzhen residents and businesses, drone delivery is no longer a new thing - it is part of their daily lives. At the beginning of 2021, Meituan drones completed the first order delivery task for real users in Shenzhen. As of the end of 2022, it has been launched in 5 business districts in Shenzhen, with 11 routes covering 18 communities and office buildings, and can deliver various types of goods. With a total of 20,000 types, more than 120,000 user orders have been completed, and the average delivery time is about 12 minutes, saving users nearly 30,000 hours of waiting time.

Editor: Wu Jiahong

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