Meituan Opens Beijing’s First Regular Drone-Delivery Route at Badaling Great Wall

Date: 2024-08-16
Type: ARTICLE
Topics: Commercial Deployments, Drone Delivery, Remote Logistics
Deck: The Badaling route brought on-demand supplies to a remote Great Wall section without shops, extending a drone network already serving four cities.
URL: https://korthosrobotics.com/research/meituan-beijing-badaling-great-wall-drone-delivery-route-2024
Referenced profiles: Meituan (https://korthosrobotics.com/ecosystem/company/meituan)

Meituan opened what it described as Beijing’s first regular drone-delivery route at the Badaling Great Wall on 16 August 2024.
The service reaches the South Ninth Tower area, a remote section without shops where visitors previously faced a walk of nearly half an hour to access supplies. Visitors can order drinks, cooling products and emergency items, while the drones are also used to carry waste away from the site after daily operations.
The route extends Meituan’s wider drone-delivery network. By August 2024, the company said it was operating more than 30 routes across Beijing, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Guangzhou and had completed more than 300,000 cumulative orders.
The Badaling service was launched as a regular operating route rather than a one-off demonstration, extending commercial drone delivery into a high-traffic tourist site with limited ground access.