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Most used apps for food delivery orders in China as of April 2023

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May 2023

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Region

China

Survey time period

April 13 to 30, 2023

Number of respondents

8,170 food delivery app users

Age group

16 years and older

Special properties

among 4,835 female and 3,335 male respondents

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Original question:
"Which of these food delivery apps do you use most? (You may choose up to two options)"

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According to a survey conducted by in April 2023, around ** percent of respondents in China stated that Meituan Waimai was the food delivery app they used the most. Ele.me was another prominent player in China's food delivery app market.

Meituan

Meituan is a Chinese online platform that offers consumer products and retail services, including dining, delivery, and entertainment for residents. In 2015, Meituan merged with Dazhong Dianping, a Tencent-backed O2O service provider that hosts restaurant reviews and offers group buying services. As of 2022, there were nearly *** million active merchants and *** million transacting users on Meituan.
Meituan expanded its reach into the delivery market with the launch of Meituan Waimai in 2013. In October 2021, Meituan was fined **** billion yuan by China's State Administration for Market Regulation for its “choose one” monopoly behavior in the delivery market.

Ele.me

Founded in 2009, Ele.me mainly targeted college users at first and gradually extended its user base to white-collar workers. While improving its online food ordering system, Ele.me started establishing a self-operated distribution team and increasingly investing in intelligent logistics systems since 2014. In April 2018, Alibaba and Ant Financial jointly acquired Ele.me for *** billion U.S. dollars.