Meituan Drone has opened Beijing’s first drone delivery route at the Badaling Great Wall, a national AAAAA-level scenic spot. Currently, this "air corridor" can provide goods delivery services such as heatstroke prevention and cooling, emergency rescue, etc. to tourists near the landing point. Since then, Meituan’s drone “airdrop” service has covered four first-tier cities in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. At the same time, this is also the first time that normalized drone delivery services have been launched in Beijing.
According to reports, the landing point of Beijing's first drone delivery route is located at the South Nine Towers on the extension line of the southern part of the Badaling Great Wall. This area will be open to the public at the end of 2023. In order to maintain the original style of the area as much as possible, there are no commercial facilities here, but this also requires tourists to walk for at least half an hour to replenish drinking water and other supplies. The recent high temperatures in Beijing have also significantly increased the demand for transportation of emergency supplies such as heatstroke prevention and cooling on the Great Wall. The complex and diverse potential demands have attracted Meituan drones to launch an "airdrop delivery" service on the Great Wall: on the premise of meeting the transportation requirements, the drones can help tourists near the landing point purchase and deliver urgently needed sunscreen umbrellas, cooling patches and other heatstroke prevention and cooling materials; a Meituan emergency medicine box has also been added at the take-off point to provide passengers with Emergency supplies such as disinfectant, light salt water, and anti-sickness medicine are provided to tourists in need; in addition, after the daily operating hours, drones will transform from "mountain pickers" to "sanitation workers" to assist scenic area operation and maintenance personnel in transporting nearby waste to designated recycling locations, alleviating the daily transportation pressure on staff under the scorching heat.