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Meituan

Meituan is the largest on-demand delivery-service provider in China by revenue. Its Meituan app is most commonly known for food delivery, but also provides shopping, film tickets, hotel and travel bookings, restaurant reviews, group discounts and bicycle rentals. As of 2022, the company had 6.24 million delivery riders and over 9.3 million merchants.

Chairman / President

Wang Xing

CEO / Managing Director

Wang Xing

CFO / Finance Director

Chen Shaohui

Industry

E-commerce

Website

meituan.com

Headquarters address

No. 4 Wangjing East Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Stock Code

SEHK:3690

Year founded

2010

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Hong Kong stock market

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Hong Kong stock market

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Artificial intelligence

Meituan claims China’s biggest AI model trained on local chips

LongCat-2.0 boasts 1.6 trillion parameters and a million-token context window, on par with DeepSeek’s latest flagship model.

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Artificial intelligence

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Trending in China

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Hong Kong stock market

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Hong Kong stock market

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E-commerce

Dishing the dirt: official media alleges smear tactics in delivery battle

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22 Jun 2026 - 7:45PM

Meituan riders in Chengdu. The delivery giant has come under scrutiny following allegations it paid merchants to report alleged irregularities by a rival platform. Photo: Shutterstock

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